HISTORY OF HOLLIS, HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE
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SOURCE: History of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire 
Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1885, 878 pgs.
p. 435
HOLLIS

CHAPTER I
Geographical--Original Grant--Old Dunstable--Original Bounds--
West Dunstable--Hollis--Derivation of the Term--One-Pine Hill--
First Settlements--The Pioneers

The town of HOLLIS lies in the southern part of the county, and is
bounded as follows:
 On the north by Milford, Amherst and Nashua; east by Nashua;
south by Massachusetts, west by Brookline and Milford.
 Nearly all the territory embraced within the bounds of the present
town of Hollis originally comprised a portion of the old town of
Dunstable, which was granted by Massachusetts, October 16, 1673 
(O.S.), and embraced the present town of Tyngsborough, the east part
of Dunstable, a narrow gore on the east side of Pepperell and a tract
in the northeast part of Townsend, Mass., and the towns of Litchfield,
Hudson, portions of Londonderry, Pelham and nearly all the present
towns of Nashua and Hollis, and parts of Amherst, Milford and
Brookline, in New Hampshire.
 December 28, 1739, the westerly portion of Dunstable was "erected
into a separate and distinct precinct" by the government of
Massachusetts, and went by the name of West Dunstable until April 3,
1746, when, in answer to a petition from the inhabitants, about 
one-half of it was incorporated with full town privileges by the
Governor and Council of the privince of New Hampshire, and named
HOLLES ["I think there can be no reasonable doubt about the origin or
orthography of the name. Benning Wentworth was Governor of the 
province, and owed his position to Thomas Pelham Holles, Duke of
New Castle, who was colonial secretary. It is well known that Governor
Wentworth named many of the towns in this State in honor of his
friends, sometimes when the inhabitants had petitioned to be
incorporated with a name of their own choosing, they preferring to
accept a name which was distateful to them rather than incur the
Governor's displeasure, and perhaps refusal to grant their charter.
As to the orthiography of the name of the Duke of New Castle, I think
John Farmer is mistaken in writing is Hollis, as there are manuscript
documents in the office of the Secretary of State to which the duke
signed his name, 'Holles New Castle.' That the town was named for him
I think there can be no question; and because of his ignorance and
detestable character, its citizens were justified in changing it to
Hollis, as they evidently did to perpetuate the name of Thomas Hollis,
the benefactor of Harvard College." -- I.W. Hammond.
 In referring to this matter, Judge Worcester says: "Within my 
remembrance, there has been much controversy upon the question whether
the name of Hollis should be spelt with the letter i or e in the
last syllable, and also as to the person in whose honor the town was
named.  Mr. Farmer, in his "Gazeteer of New Hampshire," spells it
with an "i" and tells us that the name was either derived from the
Duke of New Castle, whose family name was Hollis, or from Thomas
Hollis, a distinguished benefactor of Harvard College, Mr. Farmer
spelling both names 'Hollis."  Hon. J.B. Hill,  in his history of 
Mason, says that the name was derived from that of the Duke of New
Castle, whose family name was 'Holles,' Mr. Hill using the letter "e"
in the last syllable.  From the best evidence at my command upon the
question, I have no doubt that Mr. Hill is correct, both in the
orthography of the name and also in that of the person for whom the
town was called. In the original record of the town charter, now at 
Concord, and the copy of the charter on the Hollis record, the name
is spelt "Holles." In the town records for the twenty-five years and
more before the War of the Revolution, the name occurs hundreds of
times, and so far as I have seen, is uniformly spelt "Holles," as in
the charter, and is so spelt in the New Hampshire Laws published as
late as 1815."]

December 13, 1873, the place called One-Pine Hill was annexed to
Hollis, thus extending its domains farther east.  March 30, 1769,
a strip was taken from the west side of the town one and a quarter
miles wide, and, with "mile slip," incorporated into the town of
Raby (Brookline).  A small addition was made to the town, May 14,
1773, of land taken from Dunstable.
  On the 17th of February, 1786, a strip, three-quarters of a mile
wide, the entire length of the west side of the town, was annexed
to Raby.

 Under the laws of the province of Massachusetts (says Judge
Worcester) in force at the time, the twenty-six petitioners for the
charter of Dunstable, "with such as might joyn with them in the
settlement," became owners in fee simple, as tenants in cmoon, of all
the ungranted land within the boundaries of the township.  In the
year 1682, shortly after the close of King Philip's War, a meeting of
these proprietors was held, who formed themselves into an association
for the purpose of settling their several rights, of making divisions
of their lands from time to time among themselves in the modes and
proportions mutually agreed upon, and also for the making of sales
and setting off the lands disposed of to purchasers and actual
settlers.
 The meetings of these original proprietors, and of those who
succeeded to their estates, afterwards continued to be held (sometimes
at intervals of many years) for more than a century, the last of
them as last as 1816.  The doings of this association, including the
partitions and sales of land made by the proprietors, were carefully
recorded in books kept by them for the purpose, now worn and
mutilated, but still to be found in the office of the city clerk of
Nashua.
  Before the year 1729 most of the lands of these proprietors lying
in the present towns of Nashua, Hudson and Litchfield, N.H. and
Tyngsborough and Dunstable, Mass, had changed ownership, and much of
it was then in the occupation of actual settlers.  Previous to that
year no record of any sale or grant, to any one of the settlers of
Hollis, of land in that town is to be found in the books kept by
these proprietors.  But in the month of January, 1729-30 (O.S.), as
is shown by these records, the modest quantity of thirty-seven and
one-half acres was set off by the proprietors to Peter powers, in the
right of John Usher.  The survey of it was made by Colonel Joseph
Blanchard, an honored citizen of Dunstable, and a noted surveyor of 
the time, and was set off to Powers by Henry Farwell, Joseph French,
and William Lund, as a committee acting for the association. This
tract is described in the record as lying in that part of Dunstable
called "Nissitissit," which was the Indian name of Hollis.  It was
laid out in an oblong one hundred and twenty rods east and west, and
fifty rods from north to south.  Some years afterwards, as is shown
by these records of the proprietors, there were set off to Powers, as
purchaser and grantee, in a similiar way, several other tracts of
land in Hollis, amounting in all to nearly fourteen hundred acres,
among which was one tract of one thousand acres lying between Long
and Pennichuck Ponds, but he is the only person among the early
settlers of Hollis whose name is found as a grantee upon the books
of that association.
  Mr. Powers, afterward known as "Captain Powers," and as a leading
and prominent citizen of Hollis, was born at Littleton, Mass, in 1707.
In 1728 he was married to Anna Keyes, of Chelmsford, and the same
year removed with his wife to that part of Dunstable now known as
Nashua.  During the summer and fall of 1730 he made the first
clearing and built the first dwelling-house in Hollis.  In the month
of January, 1731, with his wife and two infant children, he made his
way home through the then dense, unbroken forest to his new home,
and thus became the first permanent settler of the town. The site of
this humble dwelling no doubt built of logs, was about one-half mile
north-west of the present Hollis meeting-house, but a short distance
from the house formerly owned by Thomas Cumings, afterwards by his
son-in-law, Mr. John S. Heywood, now deceased, where vestiges of the
old cellar, as is said, may still be seen.  For nearly two years
this family had no neighbor within about ten miles of them. On the
9th of March 1732, their eldest daughter, Anna Powers, was born, who
was the first child of English descent born in the town. 
 In the summer of 1732, Eleazer Flagg, from Concord, Mass., settled
in the southwest part of the town, on or near the place afterwards
owned by his grandson, Captain Reuben Flagg, and now by Timothy E.
Flagg, Esq., about two miles from Mr. Powers.  The house of Mr. Flagg
is said to have been fortified against the attacks of the Indians,
and was used as a garrison-house.  Mr. Flagg was the second settler.
The third family is said to have been that of Thomas Dinsmore, from
Bedford, Mass. In the year 1736 the number of settlers is said to have
increased to nine families.
  The whole of the township of Dunstable, from the date of the
charter till the new province line was settled, in the spring of 1741,
was believed to be in the county of Middlesex, Mass., and a part of
it.  The office of the register of deeds for that county was and still
is at Cambridge, where, by the province law of the time, the deeds of
all real estate within the county were to be recorded.  But no records
of deeds of land in Hollis, to persons known to have been early 
inhabitants of the town, are to be found in that office, of a date 
prior to 1731.
  Subsequent, however, to 1731, and before the spring of 1751, it is
shown by these records that between those date a very considerable
number of deeds of land, now in Hollis, were made to the early
settlers of the town. Many of these deeds, in addition to their date,
a description of the land sold and the name of the grantee, give also
his occupation and place of former residence. Among these deeds of
land in Hollis, made before 1741, are to be found the following names
of the early settlers of the town as grantees, viz: Thomas Dinsmore,
weaver; David Nevins, carpenter; and widow, Margaret Nevins, all of
Bedford, Mass.  William Nevins of Newton, Mass., husbandman. 
Jonathan Danforth and Joseph Farley, of Billerica.  Eleazar Flagg and
Jonathan Melvin of Concord. Enoch Hunt and James McDOnald, of Groton.
Stephen Harris, of Littleton. and Samuel Cumings, of Groton.
  Dunstable, as originally chartered, as we have seen, was bounded
on the south, in part, by the north line of Groton. As chartered in
1655, Groton lay on each side of the Nashua River, its northeasterly
corner being about two miles east of that river, at a place then and
still known as Buck Meadow, now in the town of nashua, about one-half
mile from the south line of that town.  The original northwest 
corner of Groton was in the line between the towns of Pepperell
and Townsend, Mass., about one mile south of the present south line
of New Hampshire.  This corner is still marked by a stone monument.
This old north line of Groton crossed the Nashua River and the
present State line at a point very near the Hollis depot, on the
Worcester and Nashua Railroad.

EARLY SETTLERS
The following notice of early settlers is taken from  Hon. Samuel T.
Worcester's excellent "History of Hollis":  
  CAPTAIN BENJAMIN ABBOT was from Andover, Mass. His name was on
the Hollis tax-lists in 1750. In 1755 he was lieutenant in Captain
Powers' company, Colonel Blanchard's regiment, in the expedition to
Crown Point, and was again in the army in 1757. He was selectman in
1752, 1753, and 1754. His son, Benjamin was a soldier in the
Revolution. Died January 5, 1776, aet. forty-six.
  WILLIAM ADAMS was in West Dunstable in 1738, and signed the
petition for the charter of West Dunstable. Married Mary Stearns,
May 29, 1744. Was a town officer in 1746. His son William was a 
soldier at Bunker Hill and Bennington. Died August 3, 1757, aet
thirty-nine.
  ENSIGN STEPHEN AMeS came from Groton, Mass. Married Jane Robbins,
in Groton, in 1731.  Was in West Dunstable in 1739, selectman in 1747
and 1748, and was a soldier in the French War in 1757.  Representative
to the New Hampshire General Court in 1775, 1776 and 1777. His son
Jonathan and David were soldiers in the Revolution.
  EBENEZER BALL came from Concord, Mass. His name was on the Hollis
tax list in 1749, and he was a soldier in the French War in 1755, in
the company of Captain Powers.  His sons, Ebenezer, Nathaniel, William
and John were soldiers in the Revolution.
 DANIEL BAILEY was from Marlborough, Mass. Settled in the part of
Hollis known as Monson about the year 1754. Himself and three of his
sons--viz: Joel, Andrew and Daniel Jr.--were Revolutionary soldiers.
Died January 15, 1798, aet. sixty-nine.
  HENRY BARTON was in West Dunstable in 1738 and signed the petition
for the charter. Was parish assessor in 1741 and collector in 1743.
Died April 20, 1760, aet. fifty-four.
 BENJAMIN BLANCHARD is supposed to have come from Dunstable, N.H. 
He was in West Dunstable in 1743, and signed the call of Rev. Mr.
Emerson. Married Kezia Hastings, December 31, 1744. Was tithingman
in 1747, and selectman in 1750 and 1754.
 ELNATHAN BLOOD, supposed from Groton, Mass. His name is on the first
tax-list for West Dunstable, in 1740. Married Elizabeth Boynton, in
Groton, in 1741. He was a soldier in the French War of 1757, and
selectman in 1773.
 JOSIAH BLOOD was from Dracut, Mass. Was in West Dunstable in 1738,
and signed the petition for the charter. Was a soldier in the
Revolution, as was also his son, Josiah Jr., and is supposed to have
died at Ticonderoga in September 1776.
 NATHANIEL BLOOD, supposed from Groton, Mass. He was in West Dunstable
in 1738, and signed the petition for the charter, and was a soldier
in the French War in 1758. Five of his sons--viz., Nathaniel Francis,
Daniel, Timothy and Nathan--were soldiers in the Revolution, the last
named of whom was killed at Bunker Hill.
 DEACON JOHN BOYNTON, supposed from Newbury, Mass. Was in West
Dunstable in 1743; parish clerk in 1744. Married Ruth Jewett, of
Rowley, in 1745. Chosen deacon in 1755, and selectman in 1758, 1761
and 1762, etc. His sons John and Jacob were soldiers in the
Revolution, the last of whom was killed at Bunker Hill. Died
October 29, 1787, aet. sixty-seven.
 JOHN BOYNTON JR., supposed also from Newbury. He was in West
Dunstable in 1745. Married Lydia Jewett, of Rowley, in May 1745.
His sons, Isaac and Joel, were Revolutionary soldiers.
 JOSHUA BOYNTON was in West Dunstable in 1745, and a town officer in
1747. Three of his sons--viz., Joshua Jr., Benjamin and Elias-- were
soldiers in the Revolution.
 ENSIGN JOSIAH BROWN was from Salem, Mass., and was in West Dunstable
in 1743, and a town officer in 1748 and 1748.  He was an ensign in
the French War in 1758. Removed to Plymouth, N.H. in 1764.
  JOHN BROWN was also from Salem, and was in West Dunstable in 1743,
and signed the call to Rev. Mr. Emerson. Married Kezia Wheeler, 
October 9, 1744. Died May 6, 1776.
 EPHRAIM BURGE was from Chelmsford, Mass. Settled in Hollis about
1760. Was a soldier in Captain Emerson's company in 1777. His oldest
son, Ephraim B. Jr. was for many years a deacon of the Hollis Church,
and his sons, Rev. Josiah B. and Dr. Benjamin B. were graduates of
Harvard College. Died July 21, 1784, aet. forty-six.
 JOSIAH CONANT was from Salem, Mass. Came to West Dunstable in 1744.
Married Catharine Emerson, February 1745. His two sons, Josiah Jr.
and Abel, were soldiers in the Revolution, and both deacons of the
Hollis Church. Died December 14, 1756, aet. fifty-four.
 LIEUTENANT ROBERT COLBURN came from Billerica, Mass., was in West
Dunstable in 1738, and signed the petition for the charter. Married
Elizabeth Smith in 1747. Settled in the part of Hollis known as
Monson. His sons, Robert Benjamin and Nathan, were Revolutionary
soldiers. Died July 9, 1783, aet. sixty-six.
 SAMUEL CUMINGS, ESQ. was born in Groton, Mass., March 6, 1709;
married Prudence Lawrence, of Groton, July 18, 1732. Was in West
Dunstable in 1739, and signed the second petition for the charter.
He was the first town clerk in twenty-two different years between
1746 and 1770. He was sergeant in Captain Power's company in the
French War in 1755. Two of his sons, Samuel and Thomas, were Loyalists
in the Revolution, and Benjamin, his youngest son, was a Continental
soldier. Died January 18, 1772, aet. sixty-two.
 JERAHMAEL CUMINGS was a brother of Samuel Cumings, and born in
Groton October 10, 1711. Married Hannah Farwell in 1736; was in West
Dunstable in 1738, and signed the first petition for the charter. He
was the father of Rev. Henry Cumings, D.D., the first minister of
Billerica, and of Captain Jotham Cumings, a soldier in the French
War of 1755 and an officer in the War of the Revolution. Died
October 25, 1747, aet. thirty-six.
 DEACON WILLIAM CUMINGS is supposed to have come from Groton, and was
in West Dunstable in 1744, and chosen deacon of the Hollis Church in
1745. He was ensign in the French War of 1755 in the company of
Captain Powers, and all his three sons--Ebenezer, William and
Philip--were soldiers in the Revolution. Died September 9, 1758, aet.
forty-six.
  JONATHAN DANFORTH came from Billerica, and was in West Dunstable in
1743, and signed the call to Rev. Mr. Emerson. He was a grandson of
the notes Massachusetts surveyor of the same name, and was a town
officer in 1746. Died March 3, 1748, aet. thirty-three.
  THOMAS DINSMORE came from Bedford, Mass; was in West Dunstable
previous to 1736, and was the third settler. Died December 10, 1748.
 ZEDEKIAH DRURY was also from Bedford, and by trade a blacksmith;
was in West Dunstable in 1743, and signed the call to Mr. Emerson.
About the year 1765 he removed to Temple, N.H.
  LIEUTENANT SAMUEL FARLEY came from Bedford, Mass; was in West
Dunstable in 1739, and was a petitioner for the charter. Married
Hannah Brown, October 7, 1744. His son Benjamin was a soldier in the
Revolution. Died November 23, 1797, aet. seventy-nine.
  LIEUTENANT BENJAMIN FARLEY was also from Bedford. Was in West
Dunstable in 1738, and was a petitioner for the charter, and was the
first inn-keeper in West Dunstable. He lived first on the farm
occupied by T.G. Worcester, about one-fourth of a mile south of the
meeting-house. He was parish assessor in 1740 and 1741, and selectman
in 1746. Three of his sons--Ebenezer, Christopher, and Stephen-- were
Revolutionary soldiers. Died November 23, 1797, in his eightieth year.
 JOSEPH FARLEY came from Billerica, and was in West Dunstable in
1743. Killed by the fall of a tree, November 24, 1762, aet. forty-
nine.
 ELEAZER FLAGG came from Concord, Mass., and was the second settler
in West Dunstable. He lived in the southwest part of the town, and
during the French War of 1744 his house was fortified as a
guard-house. He was a parish assessor in 1742. His son John was a
soldier in the French War, 1755, and his son Jonas in that of the
Revolution. Died August 14, 1757, aet. fifty-three.
 PHINEAS HARDY came to Hollis from Bradford, Mass. His name is first
on the Hollis tax-lists in 1752. He was a soldier in the garrison
at Portsmouth, N.H. in 1776, and his sons--Phineas, Thomas, Noah and
Jesse--were all soldiers in the army. Died March 7, 1813, aet. 
eighty-six.
 STEPHEN HARRIS was from Littleton, Mass., and settled in what is now
the north part of Hollis about 1735. He was a petitioner for the
charter of West Dunstable in 1738, and first treasurer of West
Dunstable in 1740. Died September 20, 1775, aet. seventy-five.
  DEACON STEPHEN JEWETT is supposed to have come from Rowley, Mass.
in 1751, and married Hannah (Farwell) Cumings, widow of Ensign
Jerahmael Cumings in 1752. He was chosen selectman in 1766, deacon
of the Hollis Church in 1770, and a delegate to the County Congress
at Amherst in 1774 and 1775. All of his three sons--Stephen Jr.,
Noah and Jonathan--were soldiers in the Revolution. Died May 23, 1803,
aet. seventy-five.
  ZERUBBABEL KEMP was born in Groton, Mass. October 12, 1705.
Married Abigail Lawrence, in Groton, November 23, 1737. Was in West
Dunstable in 1743, and a town officer in 1748.
 JAMES McDONALD also came from Groton and was in West Dunstable in
1739, and a signer of the second petition for the charter. He was a
town officer in 1748 and a soldier in 1777, in the company of Captain
Goss.  Died April 11, 1801, aet. eighty-three.
 WILLIAM NEVINS came from Newton, Mass., and his name appears in the
first tax-list in West Dunstable in 1740. He was selectman in 1771 and
1772, and moderator in 1773 and 1774. Five of his sons--viz, William,
Joseph, Benjamin, John and Phineas--were Revolutionary soldiers.
Died February 15, 1785, aet. sixty-seven.
 DAVID NEVINS was from Bedford, Mass., and was in West Dunstable
in 1738 and signed the first petition for the charter. He was parish
collector in 1741. Removed from Hollis to Plymouth among the first
settlers of Plymouth [prob NH].
 DEACON ENOCH NOYES came from Newbury, Mass. His name first appeared
on the Hollis tax lists in 1747. He was selectman in 1751, and
chosen deacon in 1755. His two sons, Enoch and Elijah, were soldiers
in the Revolution. Died September, 1796, aet. eighty.
  DEACON THOMAS PATCH was from Groton. Married Anna Gilson in 1741,
in Groton. He was in West Dunstable in 1743, and was chosen deacon
in 1745. His sons, Thomas and David, were soldiers in the Revolution.
Died May 1, 1754, aet. forty.
 WILLIAM POOL was from Reading, Mass. Married Hannah Nichols, at
Reading, June 19, 1751, and came to Hollis during the French War
of 1754, his name being first found on the Hollis tax-lists in 1758.
He was selectman in 1771. Died in Hollis, October 27, 1795, aet.
seventy. His oldest son, William W., as a soldier in the Revolution
in 1775, and again in 1778.  James, the second son, settled in Maine
and became a successful merchant. His youngest son, Hon. Benjamin Pool
born January 17, 1771, settled in Hollis, and was many times chosen to
important town offices. He was justice of the peace from 1810 to 1822,
and justice of the peace and quorum from 1822 till his decease. He 
was also representative to the New Hampshire General Court from 1804
to 1809, and State Senator in the years 1818, 1819, 1820 and 1821.
Beside these three sons, Mr. Pool had eleven daughters, ten of whom
lived to adult age, and all were married, and most of them became
the mothers of large families. He died April 20, 1836, aet. 
sixty-five.
 CAPTAIN PETER POWERS was the first settler in Hollis. Was born in
Littleton, Mass., and married Anna Keyes, of Chelmsford, in 1728.
Settled in west Dunstable in 1730. He was parish committee in 1740,
and held many other important parish and town offices. He was the
first captain of the West Dunstable militia, the commander of an
expedition to explore the Coos county in 1754, and captain of the
Hollis company in the expedition to Crown Point in 1755.  Stephen,
Whitcomb, and Levi, three of his sons, were soldiers in the French
War in the same company; and four of them--viz, Stephen, Francis,
Nahum and Samson--were soldiers in the Revolution. Died August 22,
1757, aet, fifty-six.
 MOSES PROCTOR came from Chelmsford, Mass. Was in West Dunstable in
1738, and signed the first petition for the charter. He settled in 
the west part of the town, on Proctor Hill, which was named for him.
His name is found on the first West Dunstable tax-list in 1740, and
he was selectman in 1749. The life of Mr. Proctor is said to have been
shortened by the bite of a rattlesnake, and he afterwards waged so
successful a war of extermination against those reptiles that no
rattlesnakes have been known in Hollis since his death. Died May 21,
1780, aet. seventy-three.
 ABRAHAM TAYLOR was born in Concord, Mass., and came to West Dunstable
previously to 1738, and was agent of the inhabitants with Captain
Powers in obtaining the charter. In 1740 he gave the land for the 
Hollis meeting-house, burial-ground and common. He was parish assessor
in 1740, 1741, 1742 and 1743. Died June 3, 1743, aet. thirty-six.
 WILLIAM TENNY came to Hollis from Rowley, Mass. His name first
appears on the Hollis tax-lists in 1747. He was selectman in 1769 and
1770. His son, Captain William Tenny, was a soldier in the
Revolution. Died March 22, 1783, aet. sixty-one.
  PETER WHEELER is said to have come from Salem, Mass., and settled
in the part of Hollis known as Monson. He was a petitioner for the
charter of West Dunstable in 1738, and his name was on the first
West Dunstable tax-list in 1740. He is said to have been noted in his
day for his exploits and success in hunting, especially of bears.
He was a soldier in the French War in 1755, and his sons, Ebenezer
and Lebbeus, were soldiers in the Revolution. died March 28, 1772,
aet. sixty-seven.
 JOHN WILLOUGHBY came from Billerica. He was in West Dunstable in
1745, and was a soldier in the French War in the years 1755, 1757
and 1758. His son, John W. Jr. was a captain in the War of the
Revolution in the regiment of Colonel webster. Died February 2, 1793,
aet. eighty-five.
 REV. FRANCIS WORCESTER was born in Bradford, Mass., June 7, 1698.
Married Abigail Carleton, of Rowley in 1720. Was settled as a
Congregational minister in Sandwich, Mass for ten years before 
coming to Hollis. Removed to Hollis in 1750. Afterwards preached as
an evanlist in New Hampshire, but was not again settled in the
ministry. He was the author of a small volume of "Meditations" in
verse, written in his sixtieth year; also of several moral and
religious essays, reprinted in 1760, entitled "A Bridle for Sinners
and a Spur for Saints." His oldest son was Deacon Francis Worcester.
His second son, Jesse, was a soldier in the French War, was taken
prisoner and died at Montreal in 1757. His youngest son was Captain
Noah Worcester.  Died October 14, 1783, aet. eighty-five.
 DEACON FRANCIS WORCESTER was the oldest son of Rev. Francis
Worcester. Born at Bradford March 30, 1721. Married Hannah Boynton,
of Newbury, Mass, October 28, 1741. Came to West Dunstable in 1744.
Was chosen deacon of the Hollis Church in 1746. He was selectman in
Hollis six years, moderator of the annual town-meeting eleven years,
and town treasurer twenty years, between 1746 and 1768. In 1768 he
removed to Plymouth, N.H. and was deacon of the church at Plymouth;
representative to New Hampshire General Court in 1777 and 1778,
and State Councillor in 1780, 1781 and 1783.  Died October 19, 1800,
aet, seventy-nine.
  CAPTAIN JOSHUA WRIGHT came from Woburn, Mass; was in West Dunstable
in 1739, and signed the second petition for the charter. He was
selectman in 1749 and 1769; a soldier in the French War in 1760,
and captain of the Hollis militia company in 1775 and previously.
His sons, Lemuel and Uriah, were soldiers in the Revolution.
Died August 5, 1776, aet. sixty.

  At the date of the charter (says Judge Worcester) the rude,
primitive dwellings of the settlers who had petitioned for it, with
their stump-covered embryo farms, were widely and sparsely scattered
over a large part of the new parish. Robert and William Colburn,
David, Thomas and William Nevins, Stephen Harris and Philip Woolerich
had located on the south side of the extinct town of Monson, now
the north part of Hollis; Samuel Farley, James, Joseph and Randall
McDaniels, Melvin and Whitcomb, in the easterly part of Brookline,
formerly the west part of Hollis.  The house of Abraham Taylor was
about sixty rods north of the present meeting-house in Hollis; that
of Samuel Cumings about thirty rods west of the meeting-house;
that of Benjamin Farley, the inn-keeper, on the road leading to the
south of the meeting-house; Jerahmael Cumings lived on the same road
with Farley, about one-half mile farther south; Josiah Blood, also on
the same road, about three-fourths of a mile from Cumings; Joshua
Wright about one-half mile east of Blood; William Blanchard in the
east part of the town, near Flint's Hill; William Shattuck still
father east, near the old east school-house.
 The farm of Peter Wheeler was in the northwest part of the town,
about westerly from Long pond; Moses Proctor settled in the west
part, on Proctor Hill; Henry Barton in the westerly part. The house 
of William Adams is said to have been upon the site of the present
southwest school-house, about two and a half miles from the
meeting-house.  Samuel Parker lived in the same neighborhood;
James whiting on the road to Brookline, near Whiting's Hill;
Nathaniel Blood in the same part of the town; and Enoch Hunt in the
extreme south part, next to Pepperell.  Thus is may be seen that the
settlers in the extreme north part of the settlement were from six
to seven miles distant from those in the south part, and those living
at the extreme east and west parts were even more remote from each
other.
  Many of the ancestors of the early settlers were of German origin,
who afterwards became Northmen or Normans, and fought their way into
Britain very early in its history. They were a brave and resolute
race, inured to danger and hardships; their descendants were
peculiarly fitted to become the pioneers of New England, and many
of them settled in Massachusetts some time between the years 1630
and 1650.
  One of the causes which promoted the early settlement in the
region west of the Merrimack River was the fierce controversy that
rged between New Hampshire and Massachusetts in regard to the State
line boundary question, that engaged the attention of these States
from 1731 to 1741. Both States were using their utmost endeavors
to obtain jurisdiction over as many towns as possible; consequently,
they encouraged emigration in every possible way.
  The people were told the land would be given them, and by this
means they were induced to favor emigration. It is at this period that
we are to look for the settlement at the north part of Hollis, and
this was the cause that led to it.  One of its first settlers was
SAMUEL LEEMAN, of Reading, Mass, who came here in the spring of 1736,
and settled at the William Kittredge place, so called, and was then
forty-four years of age, having been born in Reading, in 1692. He was
a prominent and influential citizen. It appears from the old Monson
records that he was one of the petitioners for the town charter,
and was chosen third selectman at the annual town-meeting of 
March 31, 1748, and again in March 1749; removed to Hollis in the
spring of 1750, where he died January 27, 1756. There is an 
interesting history in connection with the Leeman family--it is
stated that for ten generations succeeding, the eldest son was named
Samuel.  The fourth Samuel Leeman resided at Beadle, England, from
which place he emigrated to Charlestown, Mass in 1633.  His son,
Samuel (and grandfather of the subject of this sketch) settled in
Groton, Mass. shortly after its settlement, and was compelled to
leave there in consequence of the Indian invasion of march 13, 1676.
He returned to Charlestown where he enlisted for King Philip's War,
serving as private in Captain Samuel Mosely's company during the
war.  Mosely was afterwards employed by the Colonial Court of
Massachusetts to guard and protect the settlers in Dunstable and
vicinity from Indian invasion.
  The tenth Samuel Leeman was born in Munson August 7, 1749, at the
William Kittredge place.  Upon the breaking out of the Revolutionary
War, he enlisted into Captain Dow's company, and marched with that
company from Hollis common, on the afternoon of April 19, 1775, for
Concord and Lexington. He was at the battle of Bunker Hill, in
Captain Levi Spalding's company, Colonel James Reid's regiment,
and afterwards enlisted into Captain Isaac Fry's company, of Wilton,
as ensign, under the command of Colonel Alexander Scammel, and was
present with his regiment at the battle near Saratoga, where he was
killed October 10, 1777, aged twenty-eight years; he was unmarried.
  
Another one of the early settlers was WILLIAM COLBURN, who came from
Billerica, Mass., in the spring of 1738, bringing his family and 
entire effects in an ox-cart, plodding their way through the
Dunstable wilderness, guided only by marked trees. He settled at
Patch's Corner, about one hundred rods north of the Silas S. Wheeler
place, near the road leading to the North District school-house.
The old cellar hole is still to be seen. He was the ancestor of
nearly all the Colburns in Hollis, and was then forty-eight years of
age.  His long hut was occupied a portion of the time in the spring
and summer of 1747 by an Indian scouting-party, who were sent by
the General Court of New Hampshire on petition of the inhabitants of
Amherst and Monson, to guard them against Indian invasion; but no
Indians appeared during that season to molest the settlers. 
Mr. Colburn died April 3, 1769, aged seventy-nine, leaving two sons,
Robert and William.
  ROBERT COLBURN was a lieutenant in the militia, and built what has
been known for a period of over a hundred years as the old
Thaddeus Wheeler house about the year 1776. Mr. Colburn was a large
land-ower, owning from the east line of the Thaddeus Wheeler place
to the top of Birch Hill. He first married Elizabeth Leeman, daughter
of Samuel Leeman, March 2, 1745; she died and he married Elizabeth
Smith, daughter of Elias Smith.  By her he acquired a large landed
estate that she inherited from her father. He died July 9, 1784,
leaving a large family.
 
This portion of HOllis was then included within the boundaries of the
ancient township of Monson, a town which had a corporate existence
of twenty-four years, lying between Hollis and the Souhegan River,
in Amherst; but before 1746 it was known as West Dunstable, or
Dunstable West parish.
 The northwest (or Birch Hill) portion of what is now Hollis was
surveyed off, in parallel lines, into lots of eighty rods wide and two
miles long, the south west corner being in Rocky Pond, and running
north over the top of Birch Hill, the first lot being granted to one
Wadsworth, who had fought in the Narraganset War; the next lot east
was granted to Humphrey Hobson, whose father, it was said, served in
King Philip's War; the third lot was granted to one Clark; the next
to Joseph Lemmon, one of the original proprietors of Dunstable,--
these grants covering an area of five hundred and fifty rods wide and
two miles long, embracing all of the northwestern section of Hollis
and a part of the town of Milford.
 The first settler within the territory above described was 
MOSES SAUNDERS, of Marlborough, Mass., who came here in the spring of
1739, having purchased the south end of the Lemmon grant, and
commenced a clearing, built his log hut and erected a saw-mill about
this time, which is supposed to be the first one in town. The dam is
still to be seen a few rods northeast of the dwelling-house of Daniel
Bailey, apparently as good as when first used for a mill now over
one hundred years old.
 Mr. Saunders reared a family of four children here, the births of
whom are found recorded in the old Monson records.
 In the spring of 1747, fearing an Indian invasion, he became alarmed
for his personal safety, and left with his family, and returned to
Marlborough. Tradition says that he thought he saw Indians lurking in
the woods for several days before he left; they seemed bent on the
destruction of every saw-mill and its owner, and quite a number of
mills were destroyed about this time in various sections of the State.
Their motive for doing this, as Dr. Belknap says, "was to retard the
settlements, and prevent the clearing off their hunting-grounds."
 Mr. Saunders sold his property here, after a few years, to
Daniel Bailey, of Marlborough, who moved his family in the spring of
1761, and the property has ever since remained in the Bailey family,--
a period of one hundred and twenty-five years,--and been transmitted
to the fourth Daniel Bailey, its present owner.  Daniel Bailey Sr.
served in the old French War, and also in the Revolutionary War, and
his son, Joel Bailey, was at the Battle of Bunker Hill, in Captain
Levi Spaulding's company and Colonel James Reid's regiment. His son
Andrew was at the battle of Bunker Hill, in the company of Captain
Moore, of Groton; and his son Aaron was also at the battle of Bunker
Hill.  His son, Daniel Bailey, born at Marlborough, Mass., December 5,
1755, was also in the Revolutionary War; was at the battle of White
Plains, in Captain William Reed's company. After the war he occupied
the old homestead, and became an influential citizen; was captain of
State militia, served several years as one of the selectmen of the
town, and represented Hollis in the Legislature of 1813; he died in
March 1847, being then over ninety-one years old.

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EARLY RULES AND REGULATIONS
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THE STOCKS AND WHIPPING PoST-- At a town meeting in June, 1746,
 "Voted, That the selectmen provide stocks;" and at a town-meeting in
the month of January next after,
 "Voted, To Accept the Account of Josiah Conant for making the 
Stocks." The town whipping-post, the fitting companion of the stocks,
held its place near the front of the meeting-house, not far from the
west line of the common, till after the commencement of the present
century, and was in use within the memory of persons still living,
with its inseparable associate, the "Cat-o'-nine-tails." The varied
practical uses to which the stocks and whipping-post were applied may
be readily inferred by reference to a few of the contemporary
criminal laws for the punishment of minor offenses, most of which are
within the jurisdiction of justices of the peace. Some of these
punishments were as follows:
  PROFANE CURSING AND SWEARING--"For the first offence, a fine of one
shilling. If not paid, the culprit to be set in the stocks two hours.
For more than one profane Oath at the same time, a fine of two
shillings and to be set in the stocks not more than three hours."
 DRUNKENNESS--"For first offence, a fine of five shillings; if not
able to pay, the convict to be set in the stocks not more than
three hours."
 DEFAMATION,--"If found guilty, the offender to be fined twenty
shillings. If not paid, the offender to be set in the stocks not
more than three hours."
 ROBBING GARDENS AND ORCHARDS.--"If the prisoner was not able to pay
his fine, to be set in the stocks or whipped, at the discretion of
the Justice."
 INSOLENCE or VIOLENcE to WOMEN ON THE HIGHWAY.--"For the first
offence, whipping not exceeding ten stripes. FOr the second offence,
to be burnt in the hand."
 PETIT LARCENY.--The offender to forfeit treble the value of the
property stolen, and to be fined not exceeding five pounds, or
whipped not more than twenty stripes. If not paid, the culprit to be
sold for a term to be fixed at the discretion of the court.

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CHAPTER II
Ecclesiastical History--Congregational Church--Baptist Church--
Insurance Company--Library--Physicians--College Graduates--
Population

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH--The church in this town was probably not
organized until 1743, more than three years after the date of the
charter.
  In the mean time, however, the inhabitants had manifested a very
commendable zeal in their efforts to comply with the laws in respect
to the support of the ministry. At their first parish-meeting, a
committee was chosen "to provide Preaching till the following April."
In the month of March previous, "Samuel Cumings and Eleazer Flagg"
were commissioned "to provide Preaching and Entertainment for the
minister for the next three months." In July 1841, it was "Voted that
Abraham Taylor and Peter Powers have the non-resident money for the
current year to pay Mr. Underwood and Mr. Towle . . . and to procure
Preaching till the first of January next, if the money shall hold
out."  In September 1741, the first article in the warrant for a 
meeting then held "was to see whether it be the minds of the People
to do anything towards Bringing forward the Settling of a Larned and
Orther Dox Minister in this Parish."  And in February, 1742, it was
"Voted that any Person who shall hereafter Entertain any Minister for
this Parish shall have paid to him Eight Shillings for one Sabbath
day and 20s a Week if he stay longer."
 At a parish-meeting held in October, 1741, before it was publicly
known that any part of the town of Old Dunstable was on the wrong
side of of the province line, it was voted,--
 "1st, That Stephen Harris, Abraham Taylor & Peter Powers be joyned
in Committee with Benjamin Farley and Samuel Cumings to take some
proper Measures to bring forward the settling of a Larned and Orther
Dox Minister in this Parish as soon as conveniency will alow.
 "2d. That said Commitee be directed to observe the following
instructions, viz: That they wait upon the Rev. Mr. Trobridge, Mr.
Hemmingway and the Rev. Mr. Bliss and Mr. Swan, and desire their
assistance in keeping and solemnizing a Day of Fasting and Prayer in
this Parish, and Seeking the Direction of Heaven in the affair.
 "3d. That said Committee should make their address to said Ministers
for their advice and Direction what Ministers to apply ourselves too
to Preach with us on Probation."

At a parish-meeting December 28, 1741, among the accounts presented
and allowed were the following:
 "Voted, to allow Abraham Taylor,--
 "For Entertaining Ministers at the Fast, 3L, 00s, 0d.
 "For Entertaining Ministers Five Sabbaths, 2L, 00s 0d."

The warrant for this meeting was the last in which the words
"Middlesex ss." were written at the top margin. It soon became known
to them that the parish of West Dunstable was not in the county of
Middlesex, that their charter, as a legal instrument, was worthless,
and that there was no law by which the minority of the inhabitants
could be bound by the votes of a majority. Embarrassed by the
decision in respect to the new line and the loss of their charter,
our ancestors did not falter in their effort to bring forward and 
settled a "Larned and Orther Dox Minister." With this end and others
in view, the inhabitants, as we have said before, met in February,
1742, and petitioned the General Court of New Hampshire for a township
charter. No other public meeting of the inhabitants was held until
the 17th of January, 1743, near a year after, when they came together
by common consent, and by mutual agreement in their personal and
individual capacity, invited the Rev. Daniel Emerson, the candidate of
their choice, to become their minister. The proceedings of this
meeting, and that of which next followed cannot fail to be of 
interest,--
  "Att a meeting of the Inhabitants of the West Parish in Dunstable,
regularly assembled January 17, 1742-43. Abraham Taylor chosen
moderator.
 "Unanimously voted and chose Mr. Daniel Emerson for their Gospel
Minister to take the Pastoral care of the Flock of Christ in said
Place. Also,
 "Unanimously voted and agreed to give Mr. Emersno (on condition of
his acceptance), for and toward this Settlement, L400, common
currency, or L100 of the Massachusetts last Emition. Also,
 "Unanimously voted to give said Minister for his yearly Sallery,
During his Ministry in Said Place, such a certain sum of Bills of
Credit as will be equal to fifty Pounds of the Massachusetts last
Emition (new). Also,
 "Voted, to give Thirty Cords of Fire Wood, Cord Wood Length, att 
said Minister's Door yearly. Also,
 "Voted and chose Abraham Taylor, Samuel Brown, Enoch Hunt,
Eleazer Flagg, Samuel Cumings, Peter Powers, William Colburn,
Stephen Harris and Robert Blood to wait upon said Mr. Emerson and
communicate unto him the minds and Proposals of said Parish, and
desire his answer therein in convenient time.
 "In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands the Day above
said.
 "Samuel Brown, Abraham Taylor, Enoch Hunt, William Shattuck, 
William Colburn, Stephen Harris, Eleazer Flagg, Benjamin Farley,
Jorahmael Cumings, David Nevins, Joshua Wright, James Stewart,
Stephen Ames, Robert Blood, Benjamin Blanchard, Zedekiah Drury,
Peter Powers, Jonathan Danforth, Samuel Farley, William Adams,
Nicholas French, Zerubbabel Kemp, Peter Wheeler, Josiah Brown,
William Blanchard, Henry Barton, Nathaniel Blood, Elnathan Blood,
David Lowell, Thomas Nevins, Thomas Patch, Nathaniel Blodgett,
Moses Proctor, John Brown, Daniel Kendall, Josiah Blood,
William Nevins, Samuel Douglass, Joseph McDaniels, James McDaniels,
James Whiting, Joseph Farley, Making in all forty-three names."

The parish committee were prompt in communicating the foregoing call
to Mr. Emerson, and on the 4th of the following March a meeting was
called to consider his anwer, which was entered upon the record as
follows:
 "To the Inhabitants of West Parish in Dunstable:
 "Whereas, it has pleased the Great God (who has the Hearts of all men
in his Hands) to dispose and incline your hearts to invite me to take
the oversight of you and to Labour among you in Word and Doctrine,
as appears by a vote preferred to me by the Committee, bearing date
January 17, 1743-43, I have from that time taken that important matter
into the most close consideration and have asked the best advice and
am (after many and great difficulties in the way) come to this
conclusion without Hesitation, viz:
 "If you will fulfill your Promise as to the L400 Settlement in old 
Tenor, only that one part of it be in Forty Acres of Good Land, near
and convenient to the Meeting-House, firmly and forever convaied to
me, and the other Part to be paid in Bills of Publique credit within
a year from the date of this Answer - And that for my yearly Sallary
you give me such a certain Sum of Bills of Publique credit yearly,
as shall be equal to 150 ounces of coined Silver, which is the sum
you propose--together with Thirty Cords of Wood, Cord Wood Length,
delivered at my Door--And after your Parish, Town or District shall,
by the Providence of God, be increased to the number of 100 Families
(and not desired or expected until then), you make an addition to my
yearly Sallary of five ounces of coined Silver per year, till the 
same shall be equal to 200 Ounces of coined Silver--there to abide
till the number of your Families arises to 150--and then to raise
Rive Ounces of Coined Silver per year till it arrives at 210 Ounces
of Coined Silver--and there to abide and be no more, which is equal
to L70 of the Massachusetts last Emition--Always expecting the
Thirty Cords of Wood--And that these Several Sums, or Sum, be
continued to me so long as I continue a Ghospel Minister over you--
Always and in an espetial manner expecting that you will be Helpers
with me by Prayer--
 "Now if these before-mentioned conditions be freely and voluntarily
acted on a secured to me--as you promist in the call--then I as
freely and willingly accept of the call, and free subscribe myself
yours to serve in the work of the Ghospel Ministry During Life.
 "Dunstable West Precinct, March ye 4th, 1743.
 "Daniel Emerson."

The record continues,--
 "It was thereupon Voted and agreed to accept the Terms Mr. Emerson
proposed in his answer, bouth as to settlement and sallary--Also,
Voted that Samuel Brown, Abraham Taylor, Peter Powers, Eleazer
Flagg and Samuel Cumings be a committee to consult with Mr. Emerson
in ths choice of a council."

On the same day and at the same meeting, as it appears on the record,
a mutual additional agreement was entered into by the tax-payers,
and signed by most of them, with a preamble setting forth the reasons
that made this new agreement necessary, the important parts of which
are as follows:
 "Whereas, his majesty, in the late determination of the Northern
Boundary of the Massachusetts, has left us, the Subscribers,
Inhabitants of the Westerly part of Dunstable, out of the Province
to which we always supposed we belonged, and under whose Laws we
Exercised the Privileges of a Parish--but by the said determination it
is supposed by some that said Inhabitants are Disqualified to make any
Act, Agreement or Determination by a majority of voters, as they
otherwise might have done, that should be Effectual to compel Persons
to pay their honest Proportion of all such Rates and necessary charges
that shall arise in calling, settling, and maintaining a minister.
 "Now, therefore, that we may Enjoy the benefit of the Ghospel
ordinances amongst us, we have come into the following agreement and
obligation, viz."

The contract with Mr. Emerson is set forth in this new agreement,
verbatim; and the record then continues as follows:
 "Allso agreed that in the Payment of the Minister's Settlement &
Salary, the assessors hereafter be chosen Proportion such a certain
part thereof to each Pole, that when the Remainder thereof shall be
levied upon Each Person's Real and Personal Estate, agreeable to the
Rules of the Massachusetts Province, that the highest Payer upon
Estates shall be equal to a single Pole. . .
 "To the Performance of the aforewritten agreement we hereby covenant
and oblige ourselves in the Penal sum of L100, till such time as this
society be incorporated a distinct Town or Parish."

Thirty-seven names were signed to this agreement, some of which were
not upon the call. This agreement as will be readily seen, was a 
voluntary compact, entered into by those who signed it as their best
expedient for the lack of a town or parish charter.
 Some other matters suggested by this contact between Mr. Emerson and
his society are worthy of a few passing remarks, as illustrating the
laws, customs and prevailing sentiments of the times, as well in
civil as in church affairs.
 First, it was agreed, in this contract, that the new minister, for
the present, should receive for his yearly salary one hundred and
fifty ounces of coined silver, or their equal value in the bills of
public credit, the paper money of that day, and also thirty cords of
wood.  When the number of families in the society should reach one
hundred, five ounces per year were to be added, till the salary
should amount to two hundred ounces; and it might afterwards be
increased to two hundred and ten ounces.
 The ounce Troy, used in weighing the precious metals, contained
four hundred and eighty grains. The American silver dollar contained
four hundred and twelve and one-half of those grains, making the
value of the ounce of silver coin, $1.14; one hundred and fifty
ounces, $171; two hundred ounces, $228; and two hundred and ten 
ounces, $239.40 in standard federal coin.
 Mr. Emerson was ordained April 20, 1743, and he continued a faithful,
venerated and popular minister of that society till November 27, 1793,
a period of more than fifty years, without a change "or wish to
change his place." At the latter date the Rev. Eli Smith, who had
married his granddaughter, was settled as his colleague, Mr. emerson
retaining one-half of his salary till his decease, September 30, 1801,
at the age of eighty-five years.

July 31, 1745, a church covenant was adopted, which was signed by
the following persons: Daniel Emerson, John Boynton, Henry Barton,
Samuel Brown, Jerahmael Cumings, Benjamin Blanchard, Elias Smith,
Enoch Hunt, Nathaniel Blood, Joseph Fletcher, Jonathan Danforth.

The following were members of the church prior to the Revolution:
Benjamin Abbot, John Atwell, Henry Barton, Benjamin Blanchard,
Nathaniel Blood, John Boynton, Josiah Brown, Samuel Brown, 
Ephraim Burge, Robert Colburn, William Colburn, Josiah Conant,
Jerahmael Cumings, John Cumings, Samuel Cumings, William Cumings,
Jonathan Danforth, Thomas Dinsmore, Zedekiah Drury, Amos Eastman,
Daniel Emerson Jr., Benjamin Farley, Samuel Farley, Amos Fisk,
Eleazer Flagg, Samuel Goodhue, John Goss, John Hale, Phineas Hardy,
David Hobart, Samuel Hobart, Enoch Hunt, Stephen Jewett,
Ebenezer Jewett, Abraham Leeman, Samuel Leeman, Jonathan Lovejoy,
William Nevins, Enoch Noyes, Thomas Patch, Peter Powers, Moses
Proctor, William Shattuck, Zachariah Shattuck, Elias Smith, 
Jonathan Taylor, Nathaniel Townsend, John Willoughby, 
Francis Worcester, Noah Worcester, Benjamin Wright.

Rev. Mr. Emerson was a man of large and active intellect, a convert
of Whitefield, and partaking largely of his spirit, he was uniformly
evangelical, and often a very eloquent preacher. His chief
excellencies in preaching were sound doctrine, deep feeling and zeal
at times almost overwhelming. His labors wre by no means confined to
the pulpit. He was interested in public affairs, serving as chaplain
in the army and accompanying it to Crown Point.  An able counselor,
he was often called from home to aid feeble churches.  Interested in
the cause of ministerial education, and much blessed with revivals
of religion among his own people, he animated a large number of
young men to become preachers of the gospel. Very assiduous in his
attendance on the meetings of this association, he manifested an
energy like that of Baxter, whom in person he was said to resemble.
From his talents and position the Hollis minister was for many years
a leading mind in the association.
 Upon the monument erected over his grave in the Hollis central
burial-ground is inscribed the following epitaph:
 "Beneath this Monument lies the Mortal parts of
  Rev. Daniel Emerson.
  He was born at Reading, Mass., May 20, 1716.
  Graduated at Harvard University, 1739.
  And was ordained April 20, 1743, to the Pastoral care
  Of the Church and Congregation in Hollis,
  Which then consisted of only 30 Families.
  He was an honest man, given to Hospitality;
  An affectional Husband and tender Parent;
  A faithful Friend and Patriotic Citizen;
  An Evangelical, zealous  and unusually succesful Preacher
  Of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
  Highly Esteemed by his people, his praise was in all the Churches.
  A.D. 1793, he voluntarily relinquished one-half his Salary
  To promote the settlement of a Colleague,
  From which time his pious walk and occasional labors
  Evinced an unabating love for the cause of Christ,
  Until nature failed and he fell asleep in Jesus,
  September 30, 1801, aged 85 years."

November 27, 1793, Rev. Eli Smith was settled as colleague pastor
with Rev. Emerson.
 Rev. Dr. Day, in a biographic sketch of Mr. Smith, written for the
"History of the New Hampshire Churches," says of him:
 "That he was a man of strong natural talents, a firm and energetic
defender of the truth and a successful pastor. During his pastorate
of a little more than thirty-seven years between four and five
hundred persons were admitted to the church... The great revival of
his ministry was in the years 1801 and 1802. At that time one hundred
and forty-two members were united to the church.  In 1811 there was
another revival, then thirty or forty persons were added to the
church.  In 1817 there was still another, of which about fifty more
persons were made subjects.  Mr. Smith was dismissed (at his own
request) in February, 1831, and died in Hollis, May 11, 1847."
 
   Rev. David Perry, the third minister, was born at Worcester, Mass.,
July 26, 1798; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1824, at the
Theological Seminar at Andover in 1827; and was ordained at 
Cambridgeport, Mass., May 1828. He was dismissed at Cambridgeport,
afterwards installed as pastor of the church in Hollis, February 23,
1831, and dismissed, at his own request, June 13, 1842, after a
pastorate of more than ten years. Mr. Perry died at Wareham, Mass.,
August 27, 1876, aged seventy-eight, and was buried in Hollis.
   Rev. James Aiken, the fourth pastor, was born in Goffstown, N.H.,
November 14, 1810, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1839, and at
Union Theological Seminary in 1842.  He was ordained pastor August 30,
1843, and remained nearly five years. Dismissed July 3, 1848.
   Rev. Matthew D. Gordon, fifth minister, was born at Blantyre,
Scotland, December 10, 1812. He was ordained pastor March 21, 1849,
and dismissed in consequence of ill health June 7, 1852. Died at
Hoosick Falls, N.Y., August 21, 1853, aged forty.
   Rev. Pliny Butts Day, D.D., sixth minister, was born at Hutington,
Mass., April 21, 1806; graduated at Amherst College in 1834, and at
the Theological Seminar at Andover in 1837; was installed as pastor
of this church July 7, 1852. He received the honorary degree of D.D.
from Dartmouth College in 1864, of which institution he was a trustee
for several years previous to his death.  He died at Hollis, July 6,
1869, aged sixty-three.
 The published writings of Dr. Day are "Letters from Europe," 1851;
"Two Sermons," the Sabbath after his installation, 1852; "New Year's
Address," 1854; "Sermons:" at the funeral of Benjamin F. Nichols,
1854; at the funeral of John H. Cutter, 1860; "Farewell to Soldiers,"
1861; in memory of John H. Worcester, 1865; "Victory and its Dangers,"
1865; in memory of Abraham Lincoln, 1865; at the funeral of Benjamin
M. Farley, 1865. Dr. Day was also a valued contributor to the
"Congregationalist" and "Congregational Journal."
  Rev. James Laird, seventh minister was born at Huntington, Canada
East, September 4, 1833. Died at Hollis May 25, 1870, aged, thirty-
six.
  Rev. Hiram L. Kelsey, eighth minister, was born at Wheelock, Vt.
August 31, 1835; was installed pastor of the church and society at
Hollis June 1, 1875 and dismissed (at his own request) March 1, 1878.
  Rev. D.B. Scott, in the fall of 1878, was engaged as minister of the
society, and remained until January 1, 1885.

DEACONS
 William Cumings, chosen 1745; died September 9, 1858 aged 46 yrs
 Thomas Patch, chosen 1745, died May 1, 1754, aged 45
 Frances Worcester, chosen 1747, died October 19, 1800, aged 79 yrs
 Enoch Noyes, chosen 1750, died September 1796, aged 80 yrs
 John Boynton, chosen 1755, died October 29, ,1787, aged 67
 Stephen Jewett, chosen 1770; died May 23, 1803, aged 75 yrs
 Daniel Emerson Jr. chosen 1775; died Oct 4, 1820 aged 74 yrs
 Josiah Conant, chosen 1787; died August 21, 1807, aged 61
 Abel Conant, chosen 1787; died May 2, 1844 aged 88 years
 Ephraim Burge, chosen 1803; died March 3, 1843, aged 78 yrs
 Thomas Farley, chosen 1803; died March 17, 1832, aged 63 yrs
 Stephen Jewett, Jr., chosen 1808; died February 22, 1829, aged 75 yrs
 Benoni Cutter, chosen 1814; died January 17, 1816 aged 44 yrs
 Enos Hardy, chosen 1816; died may 18, 1857, aged 85 yrs
 Phillips Wood, chosen 1820; died january 14, 1858, aged 76 yrs
 William Emerson, chosen 1832; died December 3, 1873, aged 82 yrs
 Isaac Farley, chosen 1832; died February 25, 1874, aged 90 yrs
 John B. Hardy, chosen 1838
 Rev. Leonard Jewett, chosen 1846; died February 16, 1862, aged 74 yrs
 Rev. James D. Hills, chosen 1857, deceased.
 Noah Farley, chosen 1860; died April 4, 1876 aged 76
 Enoch Colburn, chosen 1863
 Perry M. Farley, chosen 1875
 George M. Broadley, chosen 1875
 Nathan Willoughby.

MEETING HOUSE
 The first meeting-house was built in 1741. It was a one-story
primitive structure.
 The second church edifice was erected in 1746.  June 13, 1746, the
town voted,--
 "To see if the town, will built a House for the Public worship of 
God.
 "To see if the town will Accept the Timber which is hewn and drawn
together to build a House with, and chose a Committee to take charge
of said Work.
  "To see if the town will accept the acre of Land that was given the
Parish to Sett the Meeting House on and for a Burying Place.
 "To see if the town will vote that the money due from Capt. Powers
shall be laid out in ammunication for a town Stock.
 "To see if the Town will provide a Pound and Stocks."

At this meeting, also, the town voted,--
 "1st, to build a House for the Public Worship of God.
 "2nd, To accept the Timber that was prepared for said use to build
said House with.
 "3d, Chose Benjamin Farley, Benjamin Blanchard and Capt. Powers a
Committee to take care and see that said House is built.
 "4th, To accept the Land that was given to the Parish to Sett the
Meeting House on and for a Burying Ground."

After the meeting of the 13th of June, such progress was made with the
new meeting-house that a special town-meeting was called on the 28th
of the following July, at which it was "Voted that ye Meeting House
be raised on the 13th of August next (1746)" "Also Voted that ye
Committee provide Victuals and Drink for ye People on Raising Day, 
and bring it to the Fraim at noon.  If they Can't Get it Among our
Friends, to Provide it Themselves."
 The third and present house of worship was erected in 1804, and
remodeled and enlarged in 1849.

BAPTIST CHURCH--A Baptist Church was formed in this town as early as
1791.  This was soon after dissolved.  There was also a church in
existence here about 1822, but there is no record of it.
  March 31, 1836, a new society was formed, and June 6, 1837, the
First Baptist Church in Hollis was organized with twenty-eight
members. Among the clergymen who officiated for the church were the
following: Revs. P. Richardson, D.P. Deming, H.W. Dalton, B. Pease,
G.B. Bills.  A church edifice was erected in 1838. It was sold in 1869
and removed. The society is dissolved.

THE HOLLIS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY was organized August 3, 1846,
with the following officers: President, Ebenezer Fox; Secretary and
Treasurer, Edward Emerson; Directors, Leonard Farley, David J. Wright,
David W. Sawtelle, William P. Saunderson, Joel Hary and Ambrose H.
Wood.

THE SOCIAL LIBRARY was incorporated June 1, 1799, and is one of the
oldest in the State

PHYSICIANS--The following physicians have practiced in Hollis: 
Jonathan Fox, Jonathan Pool, William Hale, B. Cutter, Peter Manning,
Oliver Scripture, O.M. Cooper, J.L. Colby, L.B. Farrar, W.A. Tracy,
Henry Boynton, H.W. Willoughby, G.B. Greeley, E.C. Clakre, S. Brinton,
A.W. Howe, C.C. Corey. 

POSTASTERS--Ambrose Gould, from 1818 to 1830; Benoni G. Cutter, from
1830 to 1835; Moses Proctor, from 1835 to 1836; William Butterfield
from 1836 to 1850; Franklin Wright from 1840 to 1845; Edward Emerson
from 1845 to 1854; Reuben Baldwin from 1854 to 1856; William N. Tenney
from 1856 to 1858; David W. Sawtelle from 1858 to 1862; Ebenezer T.
Wheeler from 1862 to 1867; William A. Trow from 1867 to 1875; Henry N.
Smith, from 1875 to 1877; George A. Burge, from 1877 to 1885.

POPULATION
1746: 53
1750: 77
1755: 107
1760: 177
1765: 131
1771: 231
1775: (at beginning of the war) 279
1783: (at end of the war) 293
1783: 1392
1790: 1441
1800: 1557
1810: 1529
1820: 1543
1830: 1501
1840: 1333
1850: 1293
1860: 1317
1870: 1079
1880: 1080
The population in 1767 included one male and one female slave.

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CHAPTER III
CIVIL HISTORY

Incorporation of the Town--First Town Meeting--Town Clerks--Selectmen
-- Representatives

FIRST TOWN MEETING
The town was incorporated, as before mentioned, April 3, 1746, and on 
the 28th of the same month, the first town meeting was held and the
following officers wre chosen: Samuel Cumings, moderator, Samuel
Cumings, town clerk; Samuel Cumings, Benjamin Farley, Francis
Worcester, selectmen; Thomas Dinsmore, Francis Phelps, Nicholas 
French, James McDaniels, Samuel Parker, surveyors of highways; James
Stewart, Christopher Lovejoy, tithingmen; Jonathan Danforth, 
Benjamin Blanchard, fence-viewers; Nicholas French, William Adams,
hog-reeves; Elias Smith, poundkeeper; Elias Smith, sealer of weights
and measures; Samuel Brown, sealer of leather.

TOWN CLERKS--The following is a list of the town clerks from 1746 to
1885:
 Samuel Cumins 1746 to 1770 (except 1753, 1754 and 1766)
 Samuel Goodhue, 1753, 1754
 John Hale 1766
 William Cumings 1771, 1772 and 1782-1788
 Samuel Cumings Jr. 1773, 1774
 Noah Worcester 1775 to 1779
 Daniel Emerson, 1780, 1781
 Solomon Wheat, 1789 to 1793; 1800, 1801, and 1809-1816 (except 1812 
and 1813)
 Jesse Worcester 1799
 Daniel Emerson Jr. 1802-1805
 Amos Eastman 1806
 Benjamin Pool 1807, 1808
 Ambrose Gould 1812, 1813
 Christopher P. Farley 1717-1819
 Benjamin F Farley, 1820-1823
 William Ames 1823, 1824
 Jonathan T. Wright, 1825 to 1829
 Noah Hardy, 1830, 1831
 Joseph E. Smith, 1832, 1833, 1842, 1846, 1847 and 1854-59
 William P. Hale, 1836, 1837, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1850, 1851
 Edward Emerson, 1838 and 1852
 Reuben Baldwin 1843 to 1845, 1861 and 1862
 John COlburn, 1848
 William P. Saunderson 1849
 Luther Proctor 1853 tn 1860
 William A. Trow 1863 to 1865
 Ebenezer T. Wheeler 1866 to 1870
 M. J. Powers 1884
 Henry N. Smith, 1885

SELECTMEN, the following is a list of the selectmen from 1746 to
1885 [NOTE: Only those up to 1800 are included here, although the
remainder ARE found in the original document]
 Samuel Cumings, 1746-1770 (except 1753, 1754 and 1766)
 Benjamin Farley, 1746-1748
 Francis Worcester, 1746-48, 1762-63, 1765
 Stephen Ames 1747-48, 1762, 1767, 1773, 1775-1777 and 1779
 Nathaniel Townsend, 1747 and 1752
 Samuel Brown 1748
 Elias Smith 1748
 Enoch Hunt 1749
 Joshua Wright 1749 and 1767
 Moses Proctor 1749
 Enoch Noyes 1749, 1751-1754, 1756-1760, 1778
 Samuel Goodhue, 1750, 1751, 1753, 1754, 1756
 Benjamin Blanchard, 1750 and 1754
 Zachariah Lawrence 1754 and 1757
 John Cumins 1751
 Josiah Conant 1751 and 1755
 Benjamin Abbot 1752, 1753, 1754, 1759, 1760, 1761
 John Boynton, 1758, 1761, 1762, 1766, 1768, 1780, 1781
 John Hale, 1761, 1764, 1766
 Abel Webster 1761
 Stephen Webster 1762, 1763 and 1765
 Samuel Hobart 1764 and 1766
 Stephen Jewett 1766
 Jonas Flagg 1766
 Caleb Farley 1767
 Jonathan Philbrick 1767 and 1768
 Noah Webster 1769, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779
 Reuben Dow, 1769, 1770, 1778 and 1788
 William Tenney, 1769
 James Jewett 1769
 William Brown 1771, 1772, 1795 and 1796
 William Pool, 1771
 Ebenezer Kendall 1771, 1772
 William Cumins, 1771, 1772 and 1782-1788
 William Nevins, 1771 and 1772
 Samuel Cumins Jr. 1773 and 1774
 Jacob Jewett Jr 1773, 1775 1776
 Nathaniel Ball 1773
 Elnathan Blood, 1773
 Amos Eastman 1772
 Leonard Whiting 1774
 John Goss, 1774, 1780, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788
 Daniel Kendrick, 1775, 1776 and 1777
 Oliver Lawrence, 1775, 1776 and 1779
 Daniel Emerson 1780, 1781
 Jonathan Fox 1780 and 1781
 William Read 1780
 Solomon Wardwell 1782, 1783
 Ebenezer Jewett 1782, 1783, 1784
 Jeremiah Pritchard 1784
 Jeremiah Ames 1785 1786
 Thaddeus Wheeler 1787, 1789, 1790, 1806, 1807, 1808
 Nathan Colburn 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1794, 1797
 Jonas Willoughby 1789
 Solomon Wheat 1789 to 1798, 1800, 1801, 1809, 1810, 1811, 1814,
1815, 1816
 Jonathan Danforth 1789
 William Tenney Jr. 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1798, 1799 and 1800
 Ephraim Burge, 1795 and 1796
 Jesse Worcester 1797, 1799 and 1800
 Benjamin Wright 1798, 1799
 Benjamin Pool 1801-1808, 1833, 1834
[more in original document not included here]

REPRESENTATIVES from 1739 to 1858 [again only excerpts are shown
below, more being present in the original document]
1739-Abraham Taylor and Peter Powers [rep West Dunstable, MA]
1744-James Stewart [rep West Dunstable to NH General Court, to
 present petition for garrisons/soldiers against indians]
1746-Stephen ames  [west part of Hollis to NH General Court petition
regarding new meeting house]
1747-Samuel Cumings [of town to NH General Court, petition for act
taxing land of non-residents for the support of the ministry]
1762-68--Dr. John Hale [representative to the NH General Court for
six years]
1768-74--Colonel Samuel Hobart [rep to the NH General Court for 6 yrs]
1774--Stephen Ames, Reuben Dow and Stephen Jewett [delegates to the
First County Congress, at Amherst, Nov 8, 1774]
1775-Stephen Jewett and Reuben Noyes [delegates to the Second County
Congress, held April 5, 1775.
  William Nevins, Jeremiah Ames and Samuel Farley, delegates to the
Third County Congress at Amherst, held May 24, 1775.
  Colonel John Hale, representative to the General Court, at
Portsmouth, February 23, 1775.
 Colonel Samuel Hobart, delegate to the Provincial Congress at
Exeter, April, 1775.
 Colonel John Hale and Deacon Enoch Noyes, chosen delegates to the
Provincial Congress to meet at Exeter, May 13, 1775. Colonel Hale
not being able to attend, Colonel Hobart was elected in his place
May 21st.
 November 12--Stephen Ames chosen representative to the General Court
for one year.
1776, November 26--Stephen Ames again chosen representative to the
General court for one year.
1777, November 25--Stephen Ames chosen representative for the third
time to the General Court for one year.
1778, December 12--Captain Reuben Dow chosen representative to the
General Court.
April 6--Capt. Noah Worcester and Deacon Enoch Noyes chosen delegates
to the convention at Concord to form a "new plan" of government.
December 2,--Colonel John Hale again chosen representative to the
General Court.
1780, November 23--Colonel Hale against chosen representative to the
General Court.
1781, November 21--Captain Daniel Emerson chosen representative to the
General Court.
1782, October 28--Richard Cutts Shannon chosen representative to the
General Court.
1791, August 28--Captain Daniel Emerson chosen delegate to the New
Hampshire Constitutional Convention.
--
Captain Daniel Emerson, 1783 to 1791, 1798, 1799, 1801, 1802, 1803,
1809, 1810 and 1811
Jeremiah Ames, 1792 to 1797 and 1800
Benjamin Pool, 1804 to 1808
[following years in original document, not included here]


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CHAPTER IV
MILITARY HISTORY
The Heroes of Four Wars-- The French and Indian War-- War of the
Revolution-- 1812-- War of the Rebellion-- Soldier's Monument--
John H. Worcester Post, G.A.R.--

BEFORE THE REVOLUTION (FRENCH & INDIAN WARS, ETC.)
In the regiment which was raised in New Hampshire for the Crown
Point expedition, in 1755, Rev. Daniel Emerson was chaplain, Dr.
John Hale surgeon's mate, and Jonathan Hubbard (Hobert)
adjutant, all of Hollis.
  Nearly two-thirds of the Company of his regiment were also Hollis
men.  Of this company, Peter Powers was captain; Benjamin Abbot,
lieutenant; William Cumins, ensign; James Colburn, clerk; David
Hubbard (Hobart) and Samuel Cumings, sergeants; Jonathan Powers,
ENoch Noyes, Stephen Hazeltine and James Brown, corporals; and Samuel
Brown, drummer, all of Hollis.  Among the private soldiers, or
sentinerls, we recognize the following Hollis names, viz: Jacob Abbot,
Ebenezer Ball, Samuel Barrett, Jabez Davis, John Flagg, Jonathan
Fowler, Josiah French, John Goodhue, James Hill, George Lesley,
Christopher Lovejoy, Levi Powers, Stephen Powers, Whitcomb Powers,
Isaac Stearns, Nathaniel Townsend, Daniel Wheeler, James Wheeler,
Peter Wheeler, and John Wiloughby, making in all thirty-four Hollis
men in this regiment.
 In August 1757, after the capture of Fort WIlliam Henry by the
French and Indians, a battalion of two hundred and fifty New Hampshire
troops were raised for the defense of Fort Edward, near Lake George,
commanded by Major Thomas Tash.  In the First Company of this
battalion there were eleven Hollis soldiers, viz: Benjamin Abbot,
Jacob Abbot, Stephen Ames, Ephraim Blook, Elnathan Blook, Robert
Campbell, Timothy Emerson, John Hale, Samuel Hobart, (Sergeant)
Jonathan Hobart, and John Willoughby.
 In 1758 a regiment of New Hampshire troops was raised, commanded by
Colonel John Hart, or Portsmouth, a part of which was ordered to join
a second expedition against Louisburg and the remainder to serve on
the western frontier. Of this regiment, Rev. Daniel Emerson was
chaplain, and Dr. John Hale surgeon. Of its sixth company, Ebenezer
Jaquith was second lieutenant and Josiah Brown ensign. Besides the
foregoing, there were also in the same company sixteen Hollis
soldiers, making in all twenty Hollis men in this regiment, viz:
Nathaniel Blood, Joseph Easterbrook, Jonathan Fowler, James French,
Samuel Hazeltine, James Hubbard (Hobart), Thomas Nevins, Ebenezer
Pierce, Whitcomb Powers, Thomas Powers, Isaac Stearns, Samuel Stearns,
James Taylor, Abel Webster, Peter Wheeler and John Willoughby.
 In 1759, the year of the capture of Quebec, a New Hampshire regiment
was raised and put under the command of Colonel Zaccheus Lovewell,
of Dunstable, with its rendezvous at that place. With the exception
of two companies, the rolls of this regiment are lost; but as it was
made up of drafts from the militia regiments of the whole province,
and its headquarters being in an adjacent town, there can be no
reasonable doubt that the Hollis soldiers were well represented in
it.
 In 1760, the year of the final conquest of Canada, New Hampshire
furnished its last regiment of eight hundred men for this war, of
which John GOffe was colonel, having its headquarters at Litchfield.
This regiment marched to its destination by way of Monson, Keene, the
Green Mountains, and thence to Crown Point. Its adjutant was Samuel
Hobart, and on the roll of one of its companies I find the following
names of Hollis soldiers: Joseph Taylor, lieutenant; James Taylor,
sergeant; and among the privates, Jotham Cumings, Francis Powers and
Joshua Wright.
 In the foregoing list there will be found sixty-one different names
of men who, as private soldiers or officers, in the several years of
that war, went into the army from the territory now or at that
time embraced in Hollis.

WAR OF THE REVOLUTION
 The first reference on the town record to the War of the Revolution
is under date of November 7, 1774, which was a meeting called to 
choose delegates for the County Congress, to be held on the following
day at Amherst. Deacon Stephen Jewett, Ensign Stephen Ames and
Lieutenant Reuben Dow were chosen, and the following preamble and
resolution adopted:
 "Preamble--We, the inhabitants of the town of Holles, having taken
into our most serious consideration the precarious and most alarming
affairs of our land at the present day, do firmly enter into the
following resolution:
 "That we will at all time endeavor to maintain our liberty and
privilges, both civil and sacred, even at the risque of our lives
and fortunes, and will not only disapprove, but wholly despise all
such persons as we have just and solid reason to think even wish us
in any measure to be deprived of them."
  In 1774 L27 16s 3d was assessed upon the inhabitants for ammunition.
 On December 30, 1774 it was: "Voted that we do cordially accede to
the just statement of the rights and grievances of the British
colonies and the measures adopted and recommended by the Continental
Congress for the restoration and establishment of the former and for
the redress of the latter.
 "Voted, that Col. John Hale, Dea. Stephen Jewett, Dea. John Boynton,
Ensign Stephen Ames, Dea. Enoch Noyes, Ensign Noah Worcester,
Daniel Kendrick, Jeremiah Allen, William Brown, and William Nevins,
or the major part of them, be a committee in behalf of the town to
observe the conduct of all persons touching the association
agreement.
 "Voted, to raise L16 13s 8d. as a donation to the poor of Boston."

April 28, 1775 it was:
 "Voted that we will pay two commissioned officers, four non-commis-
sioned officers and thirty-four rank and file, making in the whole
forty good and able men, to join the army in Cambridge, paying said
officers and men the same wages the Massachusetts men receive, and
will also victual the same till such time as the resolution of the
General Court or the Congress of the Province of New Hampshire shall
be known respecting the raising of a standing army the ensuing summer.
 "2nd. Voted, that the selectmen provide necessaries for sundry poor
families when the men are gone into the army till further orders,
and the amount be deducted out of their wages.
 "3d. Voted, that what grain was raised for the poor of Boston shall
be one-half sent to the army, and the other half to be distributed
to the above families."

May 11, 1775, it was
 "Voted, and chose Col. John Hale and Deacon Enoch Noyes, Delegates
to the Provincial Congress to meet at Exeter on the 17th of May, inst.
Also, Voted and instructed our delegates to join the other Governments
in raising and paying their proportions in men and money, in the 
defence of the Liberties of these Colonies.

"Province of New Hampshire, Hillsborough County, SS"
 "Special town meeting May 18, 1775, Ensign Noah Worcester,
moderator.
 "At a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Holles, May the 18th,
in the day of our public distress, occasioned by a letter from Mr.
Daniel Campbell and Mr. Jonathan Martin, a committee for calling a
Congress for this country, which Congress was called for the following
purpose:
 "1. To go into some measures for the better security of the internal
policy of the county to prevent declining into a state of Nature.
 "2. TO see if the Congress will appoint a committee of correspondence
to wait on or Join the Congress of Massachusetts Bay.
 "3. To enforce a strict adherence to the Association Agreement of
the Continental Congress."
 "

"Colony of New Hampshire, Hillsborough County, SS
"Special Meeting, December 12, 1775, Col. John Hale, Moderator
 "Voted, and chose Ensign Stephen Ames a delegate to the Congress or
Assembly at Exeter for a year.
 "Soldier's Votes--A dispute arose respecting some votes which were
brought in writing of persons gone into the army, which being put to
vote, they were allowed as if the men were present themselves."

A MUSTER ROLL OF CAPTAIN REUBEN DOW'S COMPANY OF MINUTE-MEN
WHO MARCHED FROM HOLLES the 19th of April 1775
  Reuben Dow, Captain; John Goss, first lieutenant; John Cumings,
second lieutenant; Nathan Blook, Joshua Boynton, William nevins,
Minot Farmer, sergeants; Samson Powers, James McIntoch, James 
McConnor, Ephraim Blood, corporals; David Farnsworth, drummer;
Noah Worcester Jr., fifer; Benjamin Abbot, David Ames, Jonathan Ames,
John Atwell, Ebenezer Ball, Nathaniel Nall, Job Bailey, Joel Bailey,
Joseph Bailey, Richard Bailey, Daniel Blood, Francis Blood, Jonas
Blood, Benjamin Boynton, Elias Boynton, Abel Brown, John Campbell,
James Colburn, Nathan Colburn, Thomas Colburn, Samuel Conroy,
Benjamin Cumings, Jacob Danforth, James Dickey, Amos Eastman,
Jonathan Eastman, Benjamin Farley, Ebenezer Farley, James Fisk,
Josiah Fisk, William French, Ebenezer Gilson, Manuel Grace, Aaron
Hardy, Samuel Hill, Samuel Hosley, Ephraim How, Ebenezer Jaquith,
Samuel Jewett, Edward Johnson, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Kemp, Abner
Keyes, Israel Kinney, Samuel Leeman, Randall McDaniels, Joseph Minot,
Benjamin Nevins, Joseph Nevins, Thomas Patch, Nathan Phelps, John
Philbrick, Ephraim Pierce, Nahum Powers, Thomas Pratt, Ezekiel 
Proctor, Jacob Reed, Jonathan Russ, Benjamin Sanders, RObert Seaver,
Jacob Spaulding, Isaac Stearns, Amos Taylor, Daniel Taylor, William
Tenney, David Wallingford, Nathaniel Wheat, Thomas Wheat, Ebenezer
Wheeler, Thaddeus Wheeler, Lebbeus Wheeler, Bray Wilkins, Israel
Wilkins, William Wood, Benjamin Wright, Benjamin Wright Jr., Uriah
Wright, Jesse Wyman, Ebenezer Youngman, privates.
 Thirty nine of the privates of the company, after an absence of
from five to twelve days, returned to Hollis. The remaining fifty-
three, with but few, if any exceptions, stayed at Cambridge, and
volunteered in other companies, to serve for eight months. Much the
largest part of those who remained at Cambridge re-enlisted for
eight months in a new company under Captain Dow, of which John Goss
was also first lieutenant, and John Cumins second lieutenant. This
company was afterwards mustered into the Massachusetts regiment,
commanded by Colonel William Prescott, the hero of Bunker Hill,
who, at the time, lived near the north line of the adjoining town of
Pepperell, a large part of his farm being in Hollis.  Thomas Colburn
and Ebenezer Youngman, two of these MinuteMen enlisted in the company
of Captain Moor, of Groton, Mass., in the same regiment and were both
killed in the fight at Bunker Hill.  Job Bailey, Ephraim How and
Samuel Leeman, three others of them, joined the company of Captain
Levi Spalding of Nottingham West (now Hudson) in the New Hampshire
regiment that fought at Bunker Hill under Colonel Reed, and were all
present in the battle.  Six others of them--viz, Joel Bailey, Richard
Bailey, Nathan Colburn, Abner Keyes, David Wallingford and Bray
WIlkins--volunteered in the company of Captain Archelaus Town, of
Amherst, N.H. afterwards mustered into the Twenty-seventh 
Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Colonel Hutchinson.  Of this 
company Wallingford was second lieutenant and Wilkins one of the
sergeants.

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF HOLLS SOLDIERS [from Worcester's History]
SHOWING IN WHAT YEAR THEY ENLiSTED, WHEN AND HOW LONG THEY WERe IN THE 
SERVICE 
["1775 L." denotes enlisted April 19, 1775 for Lexington and 
Cambridge; "Cam.," Cambridge; "B.H." at the battle of Bunker Hill;
"C.A." Continental army; "Port.," in garrison at Portsmouth, N.H.;
"Wh.P." at White Plains; "Ti," Ticonderoga; "1777 Al T." Ticonderoga
alarmy, June 1777; "Ben.," in the company of Captain Goss, at
Bennington, July 1777; "W. Pt." West Poing; "R.I." Rhode Island;
"G.R." names in the return of Captain Goss.

ABBOT, Benjamin, '75, L. '78, R.I., 22 d.
ADAMS, William, '75, Cam., B.H., 8 m.
AMBROSE,, '75 Cam., 3 mon.
AMES, David, '75 Cam, B.H. 8 m. '76 C.A. 1 yr., '77 C.A. 3 y
AMES, Jonathan, '75 L., '77 Al. T.
ATWELL, John '75 L., '76 Port., 3 m, '78 R.I. 22d
AULD, John, '78, C.A. 2 y
BAILEY, Andrew, '75, Cam., B.H. 8 m., '76, Port 3 m., '77 C.A. 8 m,
'78 R.I., 22 d., '79 R.I. 5 m.
BAILEY, Daniel, '75, Cam., 3 m, '77 Al. T. '78 R.I. 22d, '79 R.I. 5 m.
BAILEY, Daniel Jr., '76 Wh. P., 5 m.
BAILEY, Job, '75, Cam., B.H. 8 m. 
BAILEY, Joseph '75 L.
BAILEY, Joel, '75, Cam. 8 m. '80 W. Pt. 3 m.
BALL, Ebenezer, '75 Cam. B.H. 8 m. '76 Port and N.Y. 12 m.
BALL, Eleazer, '75, Cam., 3 m. '77 Al. T.
BALL, John, '76 Ti., 6 m, '77 C. A., 8 m.
BALL, Nathaniel Jr., '75, L.
BALL, William, '77, Al. T.
BLANCHARD, Josehua, '75, Cam., 3 m.
BLOOD, Abel, '80, C.A. 6 mo.
BLOOD, Daniel, '75, Cam., 3 m. '77 C.A. 3 y.
BLOOD, Daniel 2d, '76 L., '75 Ti., 6 mo.
BLOOD, Elnathan, '76 Ti., G.R.
BLOOD, Ephraim, '75 Cam., B.H., 8 mo.
BLOOD, Francis, '75, Cam., B.H. 8 m. 
BLOOD, Josiah, '76, Ti., 6 m.
BLOOD, Josiah Jr., '77, Al. T., '80, W. Pt. 3 m.
BLOOD, Lemuel, '80, C.A., 6 m.
BLOOD, Nathan, '75 L., '75, Cam., B.H. 8 m.
BLOOD, Nathaniel, '78, R.I. 22d., '80 C.A. 6 m.
BLOOD, Nathaniel Jr., '78 R.I. 22d
BLOOD, Jonas, '75 L.
BLOOD, Reuben, '77, Al T., '78 C.A. 2 y, '80 C.A. 6 m.
BLOOD, Simeon, '77, Ben., '78 C.A., 2 y., '80 C.A. 6 m.
BLOOD, Timothy, '76, Wh. P., 5 m, '78, R.I. 22 d
BONNER, John, '81 C.A. 3 y.
BOWERS, Henry '77, Ben.
BOWERS, Jerathmael, '79, C.A. 1 yr.
BOWERS, Oliver, '77 Al. T.
BOYD, Samuel, '78, C.A. 2 y., '80 C.A. 3 y.
BOYNTON, Benjamin, '75 L., '76 Wh. P., 5 m.
BOYNTON, Elias, '75, Cam. B.H., 8 m., '76, C.A. 1 yr, '78 R.I. 22d
BOYNTON, ISAAC, '77, C.A. 3 y.
BOYNTON, Jacob, '75, Cam., B.H. 8 m.
BOYNTON, Joel, '75 Cam., 3 m, '76 Wh. P. 5 mo.
BOYNTON, John, 3 d., '77, C.A. 8 m.
BOYNTON, Joshua, '75, Cam., B.H. 8 m., '77 Al. T.
BROOKS, John, '77, C.A. 8 m.
BROOKS, Lt. William, '78, R.I., 22 d., '81, 3 m.
BROWN, Abel, '75, Cam., B.H. 8 m.
BROWN, William, '76 Ti., G.R.
BROWN, Eliphalet, '75 Cam., 3 m. '77, Al. T., '77 Ben.
BROWN, Joseph, '76, N.Y. 2 m
BRUCE, Josiah, '75 Cam. 8 m.
BURGE, Ephraim, '77 Al. T.
CAMPBELL, John, '75 Cam., B.H., 8 m. '77 Ben.
CARTER, Edward, '76, Wh. P. 5 m. '77 C.A. 3 y.
CARTER, Thomas, '78, R.I. 22d.
CHAMBERLAIN, Asa, '81, 3m.
CHAMBERLAIN, Samuel, '76, N.Y. 2 m.
CHAMBERLAIN, Wilder, '75, Cam. B. H. 8 m.
CLARK, ELijah, '81, C.A. 3 y.
COLBURN, Benjamin, '77, Al. T., '78 R.I. 22 d.
COLBURN, James, '75, Cam., 3 m., '77 C.A. 8 m.
COLBURN, Nathan, '75, L., '75, Cam., 8 m. '76, Wh. P. 5 m.
COLBURN, Robert, '75, Cam. 3 m.
COLBURN, Thomas, '75 L., '75 Cam., B.H. 8 m.
CONANT, Abel, '75 Cam., B.H. 8 m. '76 C.A. 1 y., '78. R.I. 22 d.
CONANT, Josiah, '75, Cam., 3 m. '78, R.I. 22d.
CONNICK, Robert, '81 3 m.
CONNICK, William, '76, Wh. P., 5 m. '77, C.A., 3 y, '80, C.A. 6 m.
COWEN, William, '78, C.A. 2 y.
CUMINGS, Benjamin, '75 L., '75 Cam., B.H. 8 m.,'76 C.A. 1 y.
CONROY, John, '75, Cam., 3 m., '80 W. Pt. 3 m.
CONROY John Jr., '78 C.A. 2 y.
CONROY, Samuel, '75 L., '75 Cam., B.H., 8 m.
CONROY, Stephen, '76 C.A> 1 y., '78, C.A. 2 y., '80 C.A. 6 m.
CUMINGS, Ebenezer, '77 C.A. 3 y.
CUMINGS, En. John, '75 L., '75 Cam., B.H. 8 m.
CUMINGS, Larnard, '76 Port. and N.Y. 12 m.
CUMINGS, Peter, '75, Cam., B.H. 8 m.
CUMINGS, Philip, '75, Cam., B.H. 8 m.
CUMINGS, William, '76 N.Y. 2 m., '77, Al. T.
DANFORTH, Jacob, '76 C.A. 1 y, '77 C.A. 3 y., '80 C.A. 6 m.
DAVIS, Joshua, '76 Ti., 6 m.
DEANE, Edward, '81, C.A. 3 y.
DICKEY, James, '75 L., '77, Al. T.
DOW, Capt. Reuben, '75 L., '75 Cam., B.H., 8 m., '78 R.I. 22 d.
DOW, Evan, '75 Cam., B.H., 8 m. '78 R.I. 22 d.
DOW, Stephen, '77 Al. T., '80 W. Pt., 3 m.
EASTMAN, Amos, '75 L., '76 N.Y. 2 m.
EASTMAN, Caleb, '75, Cam., B.H. 8 m.
EASTMAN, Jonathan, '75 L.
ELLIOT, William, '75 Cam., B.H., 8 m., '76, C.A. 1 y.
EMERSON, Capt. Daniel, '76 Ti., 6 m., '77 Al T., '78 R.I. 22 d,
'79, R.I. 5 m.
EMERSON, Dr. Peter, '79 R.I., 5 m. Reg. Surg.
EMERSON, Ralph, '76 Ti., 5 m., '77 C.A. 3 y.
EMERSON, Samuel, '79 R.I. 5 m.
EMERSON, Thomas, '76 Ti. 6 m.
FARLEY, Benjamin, '75, L., '75 Cam., 3 m.
FARLEY, Benjamin Jr., '76, Ti., 6 m.
FARLEY, Lt. Caleb, '76, Port and N.Y., 12 m., '78 R.I. 22d.
FARLEY, Christohper, '76 Port and N.Y., 12 m. 
FARLEY, Ebenezer, '75 L., '76, N.Y. 2 m.
FARLEY, Joseph, '75 Cam., 3 m.
FARLEY, Stephen, '75 Cam., 3 m.
FARMER, Minot, '75 L., '75 Cam., B.H., 8 m. '76 C.A. 1 y.
FARNSWORTH, David, '75 L., '75 Cam., B.H. 8 m.
FISK, James, '75 L., '75 Cam., 8 m.
FISK, Josiah, '75 Cam., B.H. 8 m.
FLAGG, Jonas, '78, R.I. 22 d., '80 W. Pt. 3 m.
FOSTER, Simeon, '75, Cam., 3 m. '76 Wh. P. 3 m.
FRENCH, Jonathan, '77, Ben., '78, R.I., 22 d.
FRENCH, Joseph, '75, Cam., 8 m.
FRENCH, Nehemiah, '75 Cam., 8 m. '77 Al. T.
FRENCH, Timothy, '76, N.Y. 2 M.
FRENCH, William, '75 L.
GILSON, Ebenezer, '75 L., '75, Cam., 3 m.
GODFREY, John, '77 C.A., 3 y., '81, C.A. 3 y.
GOODHUE, Samuel, '77 Port., 1 m.
GOODHUE, John, '79 Port., 6 m.
GOODHUE, Stephen, '76, Wh. P., 5 M., '78 R.I., 22 d.
GOSS, Capt. John, '75 L., '75, Cam. B.H., 8 M., '77 Ben.
GRACE, Benjamin W., '81, C.A. 3 y.
GRACE, Manuel, '75 L.
HALE, Dr. John, Reg. Surgeon from '76 to '80
HALE, John Jr., '76 N.Y. 2 m., '78 R.I. 22 d.
HALE, David, '78 R.I. 22 d.
HALE, William, '77 C.A. 3 y.
HARDY, Aaron, '75 L.
HARDY, Jesse, '80 W. Pt. 3 m.
HARDY, Lemuel, '77 Al. T., '80 W. Pt. 3 m.
HARDY, Joseph, '79 Port 6 m.
HARDY, Nehemiah, '75, Cam. 3 m.
HARDY, Noah, '77 Al. T., '78, R.I. 22 d.
HARDY, Phineas, '76, Port, 3 m.
HARDY, Phineas Jr., '75 Cam., B.H. 8 m., '76 Port, 3 M.
HARDY, Silas, '698, Port., 6 m.
HARDY, Thomas, '75, Cam. B.H., 8 m., '76, C.A., 1 y.
HENDERSON, Andrew, '82, N. Frontier, 6 m.
HILL, Samuel, '75, Cam., B.H. 8 m., '76, Ti., 6 M., '77 C.A. 3 y.
HOBART, Isaac, '75, Cam., B.H. 8 m.
HOBART, Isaac 2d, '81, C.A. 3 y.
HOBART, Jacob, '81 C.A. 3 y.
HOBART, John, Al. T. '79 R.I.
HOBART, Jonathan, '75 Cam., 3 m., '76 N.Y. 2 m.
HOBART, Joshua, '75, Cam., 3 m. '77 Ben., 78, R.I. 22 d.
HOBART, Col. Samuel, '75 Paymaster.
HOBART, Solomon, '77 Al. T., '78 R.I. 22 d.
PARMENTER, Honey, '75 Cam. 3 m.
HOPKINS, Richard, '76, Port. and N.Y. 12 m.
HOSLEY, Samuel, '75 Cam., B.H. 8 m.
HOW, Ephraim, '75, Cam., B.H. 8 m. '77 Ben.
HOW, John, '76 Ti., 6 m. '78. R.I. 22 d.
HOW, Joseph, '75, Cam., 3 m.
JAQUITH, Ebenezer, '75 Cam., 3 m.
JAQUITH, Thomas, '75 Cam. 3 m.
JEWETT, Lieut. Ebenezer, '77 Al T., '80 W. Pt., 3 m.
JEWETT, Jacob, '75 Cam. 3 m.
JEWETT, Jacob 3d, '78 R.I. 22 d., '80 W. Pt. 3 m.
JEWETT, James, '78 R.I. 6 m.
JEWETT, Dea. Nathaniel, '76 Ti. G.R.
JEWETT, Noah, '76 Wh. P. 5 m.
JEWETT, Samuel, '75 Cam., B.H. 8 m.
JEWETT, Stephen Jr., '75 Cam., 3 m. '76 Wh. P. 5 m.
JOHNSON, Edward, '75 L.
JOHNSON, Samuel, '76 N.Y. 2 m.
KEMP, Thomas, '75 Cam., B.H. 8 m. '76, Wh. P. 5 m. , '77 Ben.
KENDRICK, Captain Daniel, '78, R.I. 22 d.
KEYES, Abner, '75 Cam., 8 m., '76 Port. and N.y. 12 M., '81 3 m.
KINNEY, Israel, '75 Cam., B.H. 8 m., '76 C.A. 1 y.
LAWRENCE, Asa, '78 R.I. 22 d.
LAWRENCE, Nicholas, '80 W. Pt., 3 m.
LAWRENCE, Oliver, '75, Cam., 3 m. '78 R.I. 6 m.
LAWRENCE, Silas, '80 W. Pt. 3 m.
LEEMAN, Nathaniel, '77 Al. T. '80, W. Pt. 3 m.
LEEMAN, Ensign Samuel, '75 Cam., B.H., 8 m., '76 C.A. 1 yr, '77 
C.A., 3 y.
LESLEY, Jonas, '76 Wh. P. 5 m.
LOVEJOY, Abel, '80 C.A. 6 m.
LOVEJOY, Asa, '75 Cam., 3 m., '76 Wh. P., 5 m., '77 C.A. 3 y.
LOVEJOY, Daniel, '76 Ti., G.R.
LOVEJOY, Jonathan Jr., '75 Cam., 3 m.
LUND, Ephraim, '75, Cam., 3 m.
McCONNOR, James, '75 Cam., B.H. 8 m.
McDANIELS, James, '77, Ben.
McDANIELS, Randall, '75 L.
McHENDLEY, '81 C.A. 3 y.
McINTOSH, Archibald, '77 Ben.
McINTOSH, James, '77, Cam., B.H. 8 m.
MERRILL, Daniel, '76 Ti., G.R.
MERRILL, Daniel Jr., '78 R.I. 22 d., '80 W. Pt, 3 m., '81, 3 m.
MERRILL, Samuel, '77 Al T., '77 Ben., '78, R.I. 22 d.
MESSER, Benjamin, '77 Ben.
MINOT, Joseph, '75 L.
MOOAR, Daniel, '77 Ben.
MOOAR, Jacob, '77 Ben, '81 3 m.
NEVINS, Benjamin, '75, L., '77 Ben.
NEVINS, John, '77 Ben.
NEVINS, Joseph, '75 L, '77 Al. T.
NEVINS, Phineas, '75 Cam., B.H. 8 M.
NEVINS, William, '75 L., '75 Cam., B.H., 8 M. '76 C.A. 1 y.
NOYES, Elijah, '75 Cam., 3 m. '76, Ti., 6 m., '77 Al T., '78 
R.I. 22 d.
NOYS, Enoch Jr., '76 Ti. 6 m.
PARKER, Benjamin W., '81 3 m.
PARKER, Jonathan, '76 C.A. 1 y., '77 C.A., 8 m., '78 R.I. 22 d.
PARKER, Stephen, '80 W. Pt., 3 m., '81 C.A. 3 y.
PATCH, David, '76 C.A. 1 y.
PATCH, Daniel, '75, Cam. 3 m.
PATCH, Thomas, '75, L., '76 Ti., 6 m.
PATTEN, Nathaniel, '75 Cam., B.H., 8 m., '76 Ti., 6 mo, '77 C. A.,
3 y., '80 C.A., 6 m.
PHELPS, John, '76, Ti. G.R.
PHELPS, Nathan '75, L., '75 Cam., 3 m.
PHELPS, Samuel, '76 Ti. 6 m.
PHILBRICK, John '75 L.
PIERCE, Ephraim, '75 L., '76 Wh. P. 5m. '77 Al T., '77 Beu., '79
C.A. 1 y.
PIERCE, Nehamial, '75 Cam., B.H. 8 m., '77 C.A. 8 m.
PIERCE, Solomon, '75 Cam., 3 m., '76 Ti., 6 m.
PIERCE, Richard, '76 Ti., G.R.
PLATTS, John, '75 Cam., B.H. 8 m., '76 Wh P. 5 m.
POOL, Dr. Jonathan, Assistant Surgeon, '76 to '80
POOL, William, '76, Ti., G.R.
POOL, William W., '75, Cam., 3m., '78 R.I. 22 d.
POOR, Peter, '75 Cam., B.H. 8 m.
POWELL, Thomas, '81 3 m.
POWERS, Francis, '75 Cam., B.H. 8 m. '77 Ben.
POWERS, Francis G., '79 C.A. 1 y. '80 W. Pt. 3 m.
POWERS, Jonathan, '75 Cam. B.H. 8 m.
POWERS, Nahum, '75 L., '75 Cam., B.H. 8 m.
POWERS, Samson, '75 L., '75 Cam., B.H. 8 m., '77 Ben.
POWERS, Stephen, '76, Port. and N.Y., 12 m.
PRATT, Thomas, '75 L., '75 Cam., B.H. 8 m., '76 C.A. 1 y., '77 C.A.,
3 y., '81, for the war
PROCTOR, Ezekiel, '75 L., '75 Cam., 8 m., B.H., 8 m. '76 C.A. 1 y.,
'81 C.A. 8 y.
PROCTOR, Ezra, '76, C.A. 1 y.
PROCTOR, Joel, '78, C.A. 2 y., '81 for the war
PROCTOR, Moses, '77 Al. T.
REED, Jacob, '75 L., '75 Cam., B.H.
REED, John, '75, Cam., 3 m., '76 C.A. 1 y.
READ, Samuel, '81, 3 m.
RICHARDSON, Stephen, '76 C.A. 1 y., '77 C.A. 3 y., '81 C.A. for the 
war.
RIDEOUT, James, '77, Ben.
ROGERS, Lemuel, '81, C.A. for the war
SEAVER, Robert, '75 L., '75 Cam., 3 m., '77 Al. T.
SHATTUCK, Isaac, '76 Port. and N.Y. 12 m.
SHATTUCK, Jeremiah, '75, Cam. 8 m.
SHATTUCK, William, '75 Cam., 3 m., '76 N.Y. 2 m.
SHATTUCK, Zachariah, '75 Cam., 3 m.
SHED, Jonas, '77, Ben.
SMITH, Ephraim, '75 Cam., B.H., 8 m., '76 C.A. 1 y.
SMITH, Joshua, '76, Wh. P., 5 m.
SPAULDING, Enoch, '76 Port. and N.Y. 12 m., '78 R.I. 6 m.
SPAULDING, Jacob, '75 L., '75 Cam. B.H., 8 m. '77, Al. T., '78
R.I. 22 d.
STEARNS, Isaac, '75 L., '75 Cam. B.H. 8 m., '77 Al. T., '77 Ben.
STEARNS, Joseph, '76 Ti., 6 m., '77 Ben., '79, C.A. 1 y.
STEARS, Isaac Jr., '76 Ti., 6 m.
STILES, Caleb, '79 C.A. 1 y.
STILES, Caleb Jr., '79, C.A. 1 y.
STILES, Eli '76 C.A. 1 yr., '77 C. A. 8 m., '80 C.A. for the war.
TAYLOR, Amos, '75 L., '75, Cam. B.H., 8 m.
TAYLOR, Daniel, '75, L., '75 C.B.H., 8 m.
TAYLOR, Edward, '76 Ti., F.R.
TAYLOR, Jacob, '75, Cam. 3 m. '76, C.A. 1 y., '77 C.A. 8 m.
TAYLOR, Jonathan, '75, Cam., 3 m.
TENNEY, William, Jr., '75 L., '76, Cam., 3 m., '76 Wh. P., 5 m.
THURSTON, Moses, '75, Cam., B.H. 8 m.
TOWNSEND, Ebenezer, '75 Cam. B.H. 8 m., '76 Ti., 6 m., '77, C.A. 3 y
TWISS, Asahel, '81 C.A. 3 y.
WALLINGFORD, Lieutenant David, '75 Cam., 8 m. '77 Al. T., '77 Ben.
WHEAT, Joseph, '77 Al. T., '78 R.I. 22 d., '79 C.A. 1 yr., '80 for
the war.
WHEAT, Nathaniel, '75 L., '75 Cam. 3 m.
WHEAT, Solomon, '76 Ti., G.R.
WHEAT, Thomas, '76 Port. and N.Y. 12 m.
WHEAT, Thomas Jr., '75 L., '75 Cam., B.H. 8 m.
WHEELER, Abner, '77 Al. T. '77 Ben.
WHEELER, Ebenezer, '75 L., '76 Wh. P., 5 m.
WHEELER, James Jr., '75 Cam., 3 m.
WHEELER, Lebbeus, '75 L., '75 Cam., B.H. 8 m. '77 C.A> 3 y.
WHEELER, Thaddeus, '75 L.
WILKINS, Bray, '75 L., '75 Cam. 8 m.
WILKINS, Israel, '75 L. 
WILLOUGHBY, Jonas, '82 N. Frontier 6 m.
WILLOUGHBY, Samuel, '76, Ti., G.R.
WOOD, William, '75 L., '75 Cam., B.H., 8 m., '77 Ben.
WOOD, Jonas, '77 Al. T., '77 Ben., 78, R.I. 22 d.
WOODS, Nehemiah, '77 Al. T.
WORCESTER, Captain Noah, '75 Cam., 3 m., '78 R.I. 22 d.
WORCESTER, Noah Jr., '75 L., '75 Cam., B.H. 8 m., '77 Ben.
WORCESTER, Jesse, '76 Ti., 6 m., '77 Al T., '77 Port., 1 m., '78
R.I. 22 d., '80 C.A. 6 m.
WRIGHT, Benjamin, '75 L. '76 N.Y. 2 m.
WRIGHT, Benjamin Jr., '75 L.
WRIGHT, Lemuel, '76 Ti., 6 m, '77 Al. T.
WRIGHT, Samuel, '75, Cam., B.H. 8 m. '77 Ben.
WRIGHT, Uriah, '75 L., '75, Cam., B.H., 8 m., '77 Al. T.
WYMAN, Jesse, '75 L., '76 Ny.Y. 2 m. '77 Ben.
YOUNGMAN, Ebenezer, '75 L., '75 Cam., B.H. 8 m.
YOUNGMAN, Jabez, '82 during was
YOUNGMAN, John, '76, T., 6 m. '77 C.A. 3 y, '80 C.A. for the war.
YOUNGMAN, Nicholas, '76 Ti. 6 m.
YOUNGMAN, Thomas, '76 C.A. 1 y., '77 C.A. 3 y., '80 N. Frontier, 6 m.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF SOME oF THE HOLLIS REVOLUTIONARY OFFICERS
AND SOLDIERS--
  NATHAN BLOOD, son of Nathaniel Blood, was born in Hollis, April 4,
1747; married ELizabeth Noyes, daughter of Deacon Enoch Noyes,
April 16, 1772; enlisted April 19, 1775, and was first sergeant in
the company of Captain Dow, at Bunker Hill, where he was killed
June 17, 1775.
  LIEUTENANT WILLIAM BROOKS came to Hollis about 1757; married Abigail
Kemp, in Hollis, March 29, 1759; enlisted in Captain Emerson's company
to Rhode Island, in which he was second lieutenant; enlisted again in
1781, in the company of Captain Mills, regiment of Colonel Reynolds;
removed from Hollis after the Revolution.
 DEACON JOSIAH CONANT, son of Josiah Conant; born in Hollis, October
17, 1746; enlisted December, 1775 in the company of Captain Worcester,
for Cambridge; enlisted, again, in 1778, in the company of Captain
Emerson, for Rhode Island, in which he was sergeant; deacon of the
Hollis Church in 1787, till his death, in Hollis, August 21, 1807,
aged sixty.
 DEACON ABEL CONANT, son of Josiah Conant; born in Hollis, October 3,
1755; enlisted April 19, 1775 and was in the company of Captain Drew
at the battle of Bunker Hill; enslited in 1776 in the Continental
army for one year, and in 1778 in Captain Emerson's company for
Rhode Island; marriage Pegga Jewett, in Hollis, November 20, 1781;
chosen a deacon of the Hollis Church in  1787; removed to Hardwick, 
Vermont (VT) in 1813, where he died May 2, 1844, aged eighty-eight.
 ENSIGN JOHN CUMINGS, born in Groton, Mass, March 16, 1737. His name
was on the Hollis taxlists in 1758; enlisted April 19, 1775, and was
ensign or second lieutenant in the company of Captain Dow at Bunker
Hill; removed after the war to Hancock, as is supposed.
 CAPTAIN JOTHAM CUMINGS, son of Jerahmael Cumings, and a younger
brother of Henry Cumings, D.D., of Billerica, Mass.; born December 19,
1741. He was a soldier in the French War of 1758; married Anna Brown,
of Hollis, April 27, 1863; removed from Hollis to Plymouth, N.H in 
1764; was lieutenant in a company of New Hampshire rangers in 1775,
and was for many years a deacon of the Plymouth Church; died at
Plymouth, April 1, 1808, aged sixty-six.
 WILLIAM CUMINGS was born in Groton, Mass., October 2, 1741, came to
Hollis about the year 1760, married Mehitable Eastman, of Hollis,
June 28, 1768; was master of the Hollis Grammar School in 1775 and
for many years after; was town clerk and first selectman in Hollis
in 1771 and 1772, and again from 1782 to 1788, inclusive; enlisted
in the army in 1776 and again in 1777. About the year 1790 he
removed to Hebron, N.H. where he died October 2, 1831, aged ninety.
 CAPTAIN REUBEN DOW came from Salem, N.H. and was in Hollis in 1761,
and selectman in 1769 and 1770; lieutenant of the Hollis militia
company in January 1775; chosen captain of the Hollis company of
Minute-Men that went to Cambridge, April 19, 1775; commissioned as 
captain of the Hollis company in Colonel William Prescott's regiment,
May 19, 1775; wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill, and was afterwards
a United States pensioner for life. He was chairman of the Hollis
Committee of Safety in 1776, and representative to the New Hampshire
General Court in 1778. His two sons, Evan and Stephen were 
Revolutionary Soldiers, died February 11, 1811, aged eighty-one.
  LIEUTENANT AMOS EASTMAN was a son of Amos Eastman Sr., born in
Penacook (now Concord) N.H. April 28, 1751, and came to Hollis with
his father about the year 1759; married Ruth Flagg, of Hollis,
January 6, 1774; enlisted April 19,1 775, and again in 1776, in the
regiment of Colonel Gilman. He was for many years a justice of the
peace, and town clerk and first selectman in 1806; died August 2, 1832
aged eighty-one.
 In the year 1752 his father, Amos Eastman Sr., then living at
Penacook, being on a hunting expedition in the northerly part of 
New Hampshire with General John Stark and others, was, with Stark,
taken prisoner by the Indians, and both of them taken to an Indian
village in Canada. On their arrival at the village both of the
captives were compelled to run the gauntlet between two files of
savages, each armed with a switch or club with which to strike them
as they passed between the lines. Stark, as is said, escaped with but
slight injury, but Eastman was cruelly beaten, and was afterwards
sold to a French master, kindly treated by him, and soon after 
redeemed and went home.
  CAPTAIN DANIEL EMERSON, son of Rev. Daniel Emerson, born in Hollis
December 15, 1746. Married Ama Fletcher, November 17, 1768. Chosen
deacon of the Hollis Church in 1775. Appointed coroner and high
sheriff of Hillsborough County in 1776. He was captain of the Hollis
company that went to Ticonderoga in July of that year, and was also
captain of the company enlisted in Hollis in June, 1777, upon the
Ticonderoga alarm. He was also, in 1778, captain of a mounted Hollis
company that went to Rhode Island in the summer of that year, and also
of a company in Colonel Mooney's regiment, raised for defense of
Rhode Island in 1779.  Captain Emerson was town clerk and first
selectman in 1780 and 1781. A member of the New Hampshire Council in
1787, of the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention in 1791, and a
representative to the New Hampshire General Court in nineteen
different years, between 1780 and 1812. His two oldest sons, Rev.
Daniel Emerson Jr., and Rev. Joseph Emerson, were graduates of
Harvard; his third son, Rev. Ralph Emerson, D.D. of Yale. His
youngest son, William was colonel of the regiment to which Hollis was
attached, and was for many years a deacon of the Hollis Church.
  The following epitaph is inscribed on the tombstone of Captain
Emerson in the Hollis central burial ground:
  "In Memory of Daniel Emerson, Esq.
  Having faithfully and industriously served his generation
  As an officer of the Church
  As a Defender of Freedom
  As a Magistrate and Legislator
  As a friend of the Poor
  And as a Zealous Promoter of the Redeemer's Kingdon,
  He rested from his labors
  October 4, 1820, aet. 74."

  DR. PETER EMERSON, second son of Rev. Daniel Emerson, born in Hollis
November 30, 1749. Appointed surgeon of the regiment of Colonel Mooney
in 1779. Settled as a physician in Hillsborough, N.H. and died at
Hillsborough, in 1827, aged seventy-eight.
  LIEUTENANT RALPH EMERSON, son of Rev. Daniel Emerson, born March 4,
1761. Enlisted July, 1776, at the age of fifteen, in his brother's
company for the defense of Ticonderoga.  In April 1777, he enlisted
in the Continental army for three years. Married Alice Ames, May 13,
1784. On his tombstone in the Hollis burial-ground is the following
inscription:
 "Erected to the Memory of Lieut. Ralph Emerson,
  Who was instantly killed by the accidental discharge
  Of a cannon while exercising the matross,
  October 4, 1790, in the 30th year of his age.
  We drop apace
  By nature some decay
  And some the gusts of fortune sweep away."

  CAPTAIN CALEB FARLEY was born in Billerica, Mass., October 19, 1730.
Married  Elizabeth Farley, October 11, 1754. He was a soldier from
Billerica in the French War of 1755, and came to Hollis in November,
1765, and was selectman in 1767. He enlisted in 1776 in the regiment
of Colonel Pierce Long for New York and Canada, and in 1778 he was
lieutenant in Captain Emerson's mounted company, enlisted in Hollis
for the defense of Rhode Island. Died in Hollis, April 5, 1833, aged
one hundred and two years, five months.

  MINOT FARMER, son of Benjamin Farmer, born 1750. Enlisted April 19,
1775, in the Hollis company of Minute-Men, in which he was a sergeant,
and he was also a sergeant in the company of Captain Dow at the battle
of Bunker Hill. Married Abigail Barron, September 15, 1775. In the
fall of winter of 1775 he enlisted in General Arnold's expedition to
Canada; was taken prisoner in the attack of Quebec, and died in 
captivity, May 9, 1776, aged twenty-six. He is supposed to have held
the rank of ensign.

  CAPTAIN JOHN GOSS was born at Salisbury, Mass., February 13, 1739.
His name first appears on the Hollis tax-lists in 1770. Married
Catharine Conant, of Hollis, February 10, 1774, and was selectman in
Hollis the same year. He was lieutenant in the Hollis company of
Minute-Men that went to Cambridge April 19, 1775, and also in the
Hollis company at the battle of Bunker Hill. In the year 1777 he was
the captain of the Hollis company that went to Bennington. About the
year 1805 he removed with his family to Hardwick, Vt., where he died
September 26, 1821, aged eighty-two.

  COLONEL JOHN HALE was born in Sutton, Mass., October 25, 1731. 
Settled as a physician in Hollis at the age of about twenty-four.
He was assistant surgeon, in 1755, in the regiment of Colonel
Joseph Blanchard, in the French War, and surgeon in Colonel Hart's
regiment, in 1758, in the same war. He was representative to the
New Hampshire General Court from Hollis and Dunstable from 1762 to
1768. In 1767 he was lieutenant-colonel of the Fifth Regiment of the
New Hampshire Militia, and colonel of the same regiment in 1775, and
the same year he was representative from Hollis to the New Hampshire
General Court, and also to the New Hampshire Provincial Congress. He
was surgeon of the First New Hampshire Continental Regiment from
1776 to 1780, and a member of the New Hampshire Council in the last
year named. After the war was ended, he continued in the practice of
his profession in Hollis, in which he was distinguished until his
death, in 1791. His three sons--John Jr., David and William-- were
all soldiers in the war. The following epitaph is inscribed on his
tombstone in the central burying-ground:
 "Erected to the Memory of
  Dr. John Hale,
  Who was born October 21, 1731,
  Died October 22, 1791, 
  How soon our new-born light attains to full aged noon!
  And that how soon to gray-haired light!
  We spring, we bud, we blossom and we blast
  Ere we can count our days, they fly so fast."

  DR. WILLIAM HALE, son of Colonel John Hale, born in Hollis,
July 27, 1762. Enlisted for three years in the Continental Army,
April, 1777, when in his fifteenth year. After his discharge from
the army he studied medicine with his father and succeeded him in
his practice. He was a man of great energy, and had a large practice
from his profession. Died October 10, 1854, aged ninety-two, and he
is said to have been the last survivor of the twelve hundred men whose
names are found on the rolls of the First New Hampshire Continental
Regiment.

  COLONEL DAVID HOBART, son of Peter Hobart and grandson of Gershom
Hobart, the third minister of Groton, Mass., born in Groton,
August 21, 1722. Settled in that part of Hollis known as "One-Pine
Hill" about 1748, and was a sergeant in the company of Captain Powers
in the French War in 1755. He was one of the grantees of Plymouth,
N.H., and one of the first settlers of that town. His name last
appears on the Hollis tax-lists in 1765. In 1777 he was colonel of
the Twelfth New Hampshire Regiment of Militia, and had command of a
New Hampshire regiment under General Stark at the battle of 
Bennington, where he greatly distinguished himself for his gallantry
and good conduct, for which he recieved due commendation from 
General Stark in his report of the battle. In that battle Colonel
Hobart, with Colonel Stickney, led the attack against the Tory
breast-work on the right, where the contest was nost desperate--
the Tories, it is said, "fighting like tigers," and neither asking
nor giving quarter.  Colonel Hobart, having lost his wife, after the
war removed to Haverhill, Mass., married a second wife, and died
soon after at Haverhill.  The name of this heroic officer is
erroneously spelled, "Hubbard" in Belknap's "History of New 
Hampshire," as it also was said to have been in General Stark's
report of the battle.

  COLONEL SAMUEL HOBART, a younger brother of Colonel David Hobart,
born in Groton, August 11, 1734. Settled in Hollis during the
French War of 1755; was a sergeant in that war in 1758; adjutant of
Colonel Goffe's regiment in 1760, and an ensign in 1761.  In 1767
he was major of the Fifth New Hampshire Regiment of Militia;
representative to the General Court from Hollis for six years,
from 1768 to 1774. In the year last named, was appointed colonel of
the Second New Hampshire Regiment of Minute-Men, and was a delegate
from Hollis to the New Hampshire Provincial Congress. Upon the
organization of Hillsborough County, in 1771, he was apointed 
register of deeds, county treasurer, and one of the justices of the
County Court. In 1777 he contracted with the State government to
manufacture gunpowder for the State, and removed from Hollis to
Exeter. Was representative to the General Court from Exeter. Was
representative to the General Court from Exeter in 1777 and 1778,
and a member of the State Committee of Safety in 1779 and 1780.
Anna Hobart, the first wife of Colonel Hobart, died in Hollis May 20,
1773. After he removed from Hollis he continued to reside in Exeter
for several years after the war; married a second time, and finally
removed to Kingston, N.H. where he died June 4, 1798, aged sixty-
three.

  LIEUTENANT EBENEZER JEWETT, son of Deacon Nathaniel Jewett, born
1743, enlisted in June, 1777, in the company of Captain Emerson,
on the Ticonderoga alarm, and in 1780 in the company of Captain
Barron, regiment of Colonel Nichols, for the defense of West Point,
in which company he was lieutenant. Was selectman in 1782. He married
Mary Rideout in 1793. Died October 6, 1826, aged eighty-three.

  DEACON STEPHEN JEWETT, JR., son of Deacon Stephen Jewett, born in
Hollis October 4, 1753. Enlisted in 1775 in the company of Captain
Worcester for Cambridge, and in 1776 in the company of Captain Reed
for White Plains. Married Elizabeth Pool, November 9, 1778. Chosen
deacon of the Hollis Church, 1805. Died February 22, 1829, aged
seventy-five.

  CAPTAIN DANIEL KENDRICK, born 1736, son of Daniel Kendrick.
Selectman in 1775, 1776, and 1777. Member of the Hollis Committee of
Safety in 1776 and 1777. ENlisted in Captain Emerson's mounted
company for Rhode Island in 1778. Married Mary Pool, February 13, 
1782. His eldest son, Daniel, was a graduate of Brown University.
His youngest, william P. of Harvard. Died May 20, 1790, aged fifty-
three.

  ENSIGN SAMUEL LEEMAN JR., son of Samuel Leeman, born in Hollis
August 7, 1749. Enlisted April 19, 1775. Was at the battle of
Bunker Hill, in the company of Captain Spaulding, regiment of Colonel
Reed. Enlisted in 1776 in the Continental army, and again in the
Continental army in 1777, in the company of Captain Frye, First
New Hampshire Regiment, in which he was ensign. Killed at the battle
near Saratoga, October 10, 1777, aged twenty-eight.

  ENSIGN THOMAS NEVINS JR., son of William Nevins, born in Hollis
July 26, 1746. Married Rebecca Chamberlain, March 24, 1768. Enlisted
April 19, 1775, and was sergeant, and also a sergeant in the company
of Captain Dow at Bunker Hill. Enlisted in 1776, for one year, in the
Continental army. Died in New York, 1776, aged thirty.

  DR. JONATHAN POOL, son of Eleazer Pool, born at Woburn, September 5,
1758. Studied medicine with Colonel John Hale, in Hollis, Was
assistant surgeon in the First New Hampshire Regiment from 1776 to
1780. Married Elizabeth Hale, daughter of Colonel John Hale, December
7, 1780, and settled as a physician in Hollis, where he died July 25,
1797, aged thirty-eight.
  
  CAPTAIN ROBERT SEAVER, born 1743; name first on the Hollis tax-lists
in 1767. Enlisted April 19, 1775; was lieutenant in Captain
Worcester's company for Cambridge in 1775, and also in Captain
Emerson's company in June 1777. Died November 3, 1828, aged eighty-
five.

  CAPTAIN WILLIAM TENNEY was the son of William and Anna Tenney,
and was born in Hollis, March 7, 1755. April 19, 1775 he enlisted in
the company of the Hollis Minute-Men; and in December 1775, in the
company of Captain Worcester, for Cambridge; and again, in 1776, in
that of Captain Reed, for White Plains. Married Phebe Jewett in
1776, by whom he had ten children--five sons and five daughters.
His sons, Caleb Jewett and William were graduates of Dartmouth.
Died June 16, 1806, aged fifty-one.
  His youngest son, HON. RALPH E. TENNEY, born October 5, 1790,
settled as a farmer in Hollis, upon his paternal homestead. He was
for many years a justice of the peace and quorum, and was frequently
elected by his townsmen to offices of honor and trust. For his first
wife he married Olive Brown, of Hollis, November 12, 1812, by whom
he had one daughter. After her decease he married, August 14, 1818,
for his second wife, Miss Phebe C. Smith, born in Dracut, Mass.,
June 2, 1790. At an early age Miss Smith went to Merrimack, N.H. to
reside with her step-father, Simeon Cumings, Esq., upon whose
decease she came to Hollis with her mother, to care for her in her
declining years. She was afterwards, in her earlier years, widely
known in Hollis as an excellent and popular school-teacher, and an
assistant of Mr. Ambrose Gould in his store.
  She had by Mr. Tenney a family of nine children, and upon her
marriage became an honored wife and a devoted, faithful and beloved
mother. She was also a kind neighbor and an efficient and cheerful
helper in works of benevolence and charity.

*****
WAR OF 1812--The following from Hollis were in this war: Jacob Hobart,
Benj. Ranger, Abel Brown, William N. Lovejoy, Isaac Hardy,
William Emerson, Daniel Lawrence Jr., Phineas Cumings, Leonard Blood,
I. Butterfield, John Butterfield, John Drew, H. Kendall, David Powers,
E. Burge Jr., and N. Hobart.

*****
WAR OF THE REBELLION [CIVIL WAR]
*****
The following enlisted from Hollis during the War of the Rebellion:

FIRST REGIMENT
  William F. French, enlisted Company F, May 3, 1861; mustered out
August 9, 1861.
 Asa W. Jaquith, enlisted Company F., May 3, 1861; mustered out
August 9, 1861.

SECOND REGIMENT
 Samuel J. Beard, enlisted June 5, 1861, Company G; wounded at Fair
Oaks, Va., June 25, 1862; discharged for disability December 9, 1862.
 George Worcester, enlisted Company G., June 1, 1861; mustered out
June 21, 1864.
 George P. Greeley, appointed assistant surgeon May3, 1861; resigned
June 3, 1861; appointed assistant surgeon Fourth New Hampshire
Regiment August 1, 1861, promoted to surgeon October 8, 1862; 
honorably discharged October 23, 1864.

THIRD REGIMENT
  The Hollis soldiers whose names appear below enlisted in Company F
of this regiment, August 23, 1861:
  Stillman Blood, re-enlisted February 13, 1864; mustered out May 15,
1865.
 Charles F. Chase, promoted to second lieutenant Third South Carolina
Volunteers.
 James L. Chase, wounded June 15, 1862; re-enlisted February 13, 1864.
 Leonard Conroy, mustered out August 23, 1864.
 Caleb Davis, wounded August 16, 1864; mustered out August 23, 1864.
 John O. Doherty, discharged for disability, September 15, 1862.

FOURTH REGIMENT
 Perley J. Jewett, died of disease at Morris Island, S.C.,
December 3, 1863.
 William Mansfield, mustered out September 27, 1864

SEVENTH REGIMENT.
 This regiment was enlisted and had its rendezvous at Manchester and
was mustered into the United States service December 14, 1861,
under Colonel Haldimand S. Putnam, of Cornish. Colonel Putnam was
killed July 18, 1863, in the assault on Fort Wagner, and was
succeeded in the command by Colonel Joseph C. Abbott, of Manchester.
  Nathan M. Ames, commissioned captain of Company H., December 14,
1861; mustered out December 22, 1864.
 Mark J. Austin, promoted to fifth sergeant December 14, 1861;
mustered out December 22, 1864.
 Henry Ball, accidentally killed himself at Beaufort, S.C., June 26,
1862.
 George H. Bartemus, mustered out December 22, 1864.
 John P. Bills, killed at Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863.
 John F. Boynton, wounded at Olustee, Fla., February 20, 1864;
re-enlisted February 28, 1864; promoted to corporal January 26, 1856;
promoted to sergeant June 13, 1865; mustered out July 20, 1865.
 Charles H. Burge, discharged for disability at St. Augustine, Fla,
January 4, 1863.
 George A. Burge, promoted to corporal May 25, 1862; promoted to
sergeant, December 9, 1863; mustered out December 22, 1864.
 John A. Coburn, promoted to fourth sergeant December 14, 1861;
first sergeant December 28, 1863; re-enlisted veteran February 28,
1864; promoted to captain Company E., December 12, 1864; mustered
out July 20, 1865.
 Edward S. Colburn, transferred to Invalid Corps March 29, 1864.
 Josiah Colburn, wounded at Bermuda Hundred, Va., May 20, 1864;
mustered out December 22, 1864.
 Daniel W. Colburn, promoted to corporal December 14, 1861; died of
disease, at Hollis, February 28, 1862.
 Henry M.H. Day, promoted to corporal, December 14, 1861; wounded
at Olustee, Fl., February 20, 1864; mustered out December 22, 1864.
 Ebenezer P. Duncklee, discharged for disability February, 1862.
 Benjamin L. Farley discharged for disablity at Fort Jefferson, Fla.,
June 26, 1862.
 Charles H. Farley, promoted to first sergeant December 14, 1861;
second lieutenant June 30, 1862; first lieutenant August 6, 1863;
wounded mortally at Olustee, Fla., February 20, 1864.
 Charles H. Fletcher, died of disease at Beaufort, S.C. Aug. 10, 1862.
 Daniel W. Heyden, promoted to corporal December 5, 1862; wounded at
Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863; promoted to sergeant February 3, 1864;
wounded at Olustee, Fla., February 20, 1864; discharged for
disability April 29, 1864.
 John W. Hayden, promoted to corporal December 14, 1861; died of
disease at New York City, February 8, 1862.
 J. Newton Hayden, wounded May 14, 1864; mustered out Dec 22, 1864.
 Albert F. Hills, wounded at Olustee, Fla February 20, 1864; mustered
out December 22, 1864.
 Alfred F. Hills, mustered out December 22, 1864.
 Jonathan B. Hobart, died of disease at Morris Island, S.C.,
August 23, 1863
 Frank P. Hood, wounded at Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863; discharged on
account of wounds November 25, 1863.
 James C. Howard, wounded at Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863; mustered
out December 22, 1864.
 Norman R. Howe, promoted to corporal, December 14, 1861; died of
disease at Beaufort, S.C. August 15, 1862.
[the remainder of the list, found in the original document is
not continued here, except for NAMES ONLY]
 George D. Jacquith, Francis Lovejoy, John Lund, William Lund,
Stephen H. Price, Charles G. Rideout, Freeman H. Smith, William F.
Spalding, Nathaniel L. Truell, Charles H. Worcester, John H. 
Worcester, William Worcester, Ezra S. Wright, Nathaniel H. Wright.

EIGHTH REGIMENT
[names only included here]
 Albert S. Austin, Andrew H. Conant, Freeman Elkins, James W.D. Jones,
and Joseph T. Patch.

FIFTEEN REGIMENT
  This regiment was raised for nine months, and was mustered into
service November 12, 1862. The names of the Hollis men are presented
in the following list:  Charles F. Adams, George H. Annis, Caleb W.
Chamberlain, Al Colburn, Charles S. Hamblet, Alfred A. Hanscom,
Isaac Hardy, John H. Hardy, Samuel F. Hayden, George S. Hull,
Granville P. Patch, Aaron Pond, Frank E. Pond, Rufus Portwine,
David J. Rideout, Freeman H. Smith, John C. Smith (died of disease
at Hollis August 10, 1863) Goerge T. Tenney, Isaac Vandyke,
Harvey M. Willoby, Oliver H. Willoby, Francis A. Wood (second
lieutenant).

OTHER HOLLIS SOLDIERS ENLISTED IN 1862:
 Henry G. Cameron, Frank N. Chickering, John G. Jacquith,
David T. Roby, Peter Smithwick, Joseph Sullivan, John L. Woods.

ENLISTED AND DRAFTED in 1863:
 Patrick Baker, Joseph Buss, Jason W. Bills, Charles A. Hale,
Harvey M. Hall, Hiram R. Kendall.

John F. Boynton, John A. Coburn and S.H. Price re-enlisted in
1864.  The following also enlisted this year: C.S. Hamblet,
Aaron Pond and Charles F. Chase.

***
SOLDIER'S MONUMENT
***
The soldier's monument was erected at a cost of $2120.77, and was
dedicated May 30, 1873. It is twenty-two and one-half feet in height.
On the west side is the following inscription: "In honor of the Hollis
soldiers who fell in the Wars of 1775 and in 1812;" and on the east
side are the names of the Hollis soldiers who lost their lives in
the Rebellion [Civil War] as follows:
  "Those that fell."
  1st Lieutenant John H. Worcester, 1st Lieut. Chas. H. Farley,
Corp. Webster D. Colburn, Corp. Norman R. Howe, Corp. John W. Haydn,
Henry Ball, John P. Bills, Joseph E. Buss, Charles H. Fletcher,
Harvey M. Hall, Jonathan B. Hobart, Perley J. Jewett, James W.D. 
Jones, Hiram R. Kendall, Joseph T. Patch, John C. Smith,
Sylvester T. Wheeler, Nathaniel H. Wright.

***
JOHN H. WORCESTER POST, GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC was organized
April 1, 1875, in honor of Lieutenant J.H. Worcester, who was
mortally wounded in the assault on Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863

***
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
***

JOSEPH E. WORCESTER, LL.D. [from Worcester's History of Hollis]
Joseph E. Worcester, LL.D., son of Jesse and Sarah (Parker)
Worcester, was born in Bedford, N.H. August 24, 1784, and in 1794,
when in his tenth year, came to Hollis with his parents. His youth,
till the age of majority was passed in agricultural labor on his
father's farm in Hollis; but he early manifested an ardent love of
knowledge, and availed himself of every attainable means for mental
improvement.  After reaching his majority he prepared himself for
college, partly at the academy in Salisbury, N.H. and part at
Phillips Academy in Andover, and graduated at Yale in 1811. After
leaving college he was for several years employed as a teacher of a
private school at Salem, Mass; he afterwards passed two years at
Andover, mass., and in 1819 removed to Cambridge, where he devoted
himself to literary pursuits and to the preparation for the press of
his numerous and valuable publications, till his decease, October 27,
1865, aged eighty-one years.  He was married, June 29, 1841, to
Amy Elizabeth McKean (who still survives) daughter of rev. Joseph
McKean, D.D., formerly professor of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard
College.
  The first literary work of Dr. Worcester was his "Universal
Gazetteer, Ancient and Modern," in two volumes octavo, of near one
thousand pages each, published at Andover in 1817; the next, a
"Gazeteer of the United States," one volume octavo, of three hundred
and seventy-two pages, published in 1818. This was followed in 1819
by his "Elements of Geography, Ancient and Modern, with an Atlas,"
a work that was received with much favor that is passed through
several sterotype editions.  In 1823 this geography was succeeded by
an illustrated work, in two volumes duodecimo, entitled "Sketches of
the Earth and its Inhabitants." In 1825, upon being elected a member
of the American Academy, he communicated to that Association an 
elaborate essay entitled, "Remakrs upon Longevity," which was 
published with the memoirs of the academy. His "Elements of Ancient
and Modern History," with an "Historical Atlas," appeared in 1826--
a work from that time to the present very extensively used as a 
standard text-book in our public High Schools and academies.
  His first work in lexicography was an edition of "Johnson's
Dictionary, combined with Walker's Pronunciation," an octavo volume
of eleven hundred and fifty-six pages, first published in 1828. In
1829, against his own inclination, he was induced, through the
persistant urgency of his publisher of "Webster's Quarto Dictionary"
(who was his personal friend) to prepare an abridgement of that
work, a task to which he was strongly averse and at first refused,
a refusal to which he afterwards regretted that he did not adhere.
This work appeared in 1830 in an octavo volume of one thousand and
seventy-one pages, into which he incorporated much valuable matter
which he had prepared for his own dictionaries.  The same year he
published the first edition of his "Comprehensive Dictionary," a
duodecimo volume of four hundred and twenty pages. This work was
the first of his own dictionaries, and at once had an extensive
sale and soon passed through many editions.
  In 1831 he made a voyage to Europe, where he spent many months in
visiting places of interest and in the collection of works in the
departments of philology and lexicography, for use in his future
publications.
  Upon his return from Europe he became the editor of the "American
Almanac," a statistical, closely-printed duodecimo annual, each
number containing about three hundred and fifty pages, which he 
continued to edit for eleven years with his accustomed care and
fidelity.  In 1846 his "Universal and Critical Dictionary" was
first published--a large, closely-printed royal octavo volume of
one thousand and thirty-one pages, and als, the same year, his
"Elementary School Dictionary."
  In 1847 Dr. Worcester was threatened with total loss of sight. His
eyes had yieled to his long, unbroken intellectual labor, and for
two years he was nearly blind.  In the meanwhile three operations
were performed on his right eye, which was happily saved. After the
partial recovery of his sight, Dr. Worcester published the following
works:
 1850, "Primary Dictionary for Public Schools," 16mo 384pp, revised
edition, 1860.
 1855, "Academic Dictionary," for High Schools and academies,
duodecimo, 565 pp.
 1857, "Pronouncing Spelling-Book," duodecimo, 180 pp.
 1859, "Quarto Dictionary of the English Language, " with 1000
illustrations, 1284 pp.
 1860, "Elementary Dictionary," revised edition, duodecimo, 400 pp.
 1860, "Comprehensive Dictionary," revised edition, duodecimo, 612 pp
 1864, "Comprehensive Spelling-Book," duodecimo, 156 pp.

From a memoir of Dr. Worcester, read before the American Academy by
Ezra Abbot, LL.D., librarian of Harvard College, a few lines are here
transcribed, presenting an estimate of his literary labors by one
who was familiar with them,-- "All the works of Dr. Worcester (says
the author of his memori) give evidence of sound judgement and good
taste, combined with indefatigable industry and a conscientious
solicitude for accuracy in the statement of facts. The tendency of
his mind was practical, rather than speculative.
 "As a lexicographer, he did not undertake to reform the anomalies
of the English language. His aim was rather to preserve it from
corruption. In regard to both orthography and pronunciation, he took
great pains to ascertain the best usage, and perhaps there is no
lexicographer whose judgement respecting these matters in doubtful
cases deserved higher consideration."
  Dr. Worcester was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society,
of the American Academy, of the American Oriental Society, and an
honorary member of the Royal Geographical Society of London. He
received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Brown University in 1847,
and from Dartmouth College in 1856.
  In a biographic sketch of Dr. Worcester, by Hon. George S. Hillard,
it is said of him,--"His long busy life was passed in unbroken
literary toil. Though his manners were reserved and his habits 
retiring, his affections were strong, and benevolence was an ever-
active principle in his nature. . . He was a stranger to the inpulses
of passion and the sting of ambition. His life was tranquil, happy
and useful.  A love of truth and a strong sense of duty were leading
traits in his character.  Little known, except by name, to the
general public, he was greatly honored and loved by that small circle
of relatives and friends who had constant opportunities of learning
the warmth of his affections and the strength of his virtues."

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